👉 Connectionism is a philosophical and scientific theory that posits an emergent structure to explain how the world works. It was proposed by John Searle in 1967, but it has since been criticized for its lack of empirical evidence and for its reliance on intuitive notions rather than rigorous mathematical arguments. The idea behind connectionism is that some aspects of reality are determined by underlying principles or laws that exist independently of the observable world. For example, the nature of matter can be explained through