{"id":4433,"date":"2021-09-14T21:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2022-03-22T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:05:09","slug":"hayek-connectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/hayek-connectionism\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Class: Hayek\u2019s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"2870184\" class=\"abstract-title\">An essay by\u00a0Matteo Pasquinelli on the early history of AI for the Berkeley University journal <em>Qui Parle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"abstract\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/49499953\/\"><strong>download \u00a0PDF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"abstract-border\"><em>Abstract.<\/em> It was not a cybernetician but a neoliberal economist who provided the first systematic treatise on <strong>connectionism<\/strong> or, as it would later be known, the paradigm of artificial neural networks. In his 1952 book <em>The Sensory Order,\u00a0<\/em>Friedrich <strong>Hayek<\/strong> advanced a connectionist theory of the mind already far more advanced than the theory of symbolic AI, whose birth is redundantly celebrated in 1956 with the exalted Dartmouth workshop. In this text Hayek provided a synthesis of Gestalt principles and considerations of artificial neural networks, even speculating about the possibility of a machine fulfilling a similar function of \u201cthe nervous system as an instrument of classification,\u201d auguring what we call today a \u201cclassifier algorithm.\u201d This article shows how Hayek\u2019s connectionist theory of the mind was used to shore up a specific and ideological view of the market and schematically reconstructs Hayek\u2019s line of argumentation from his economic paradigm backward to his theory of cognition. Eventually, in Hayek\u2019s interpretation, connectionism provides a relativist cognitive paradigm that justifies the \u201cmethodological individualism\u201d of <strong>neoliberalism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Citation<\/em>: Matteo Pasquinelli, &#8220;How to Make a Class<span class=\"subtitle-colon\">: <\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">Hayek\u2019s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<em>Qui Parle,<\/em>\u00a01 June 2021, 30 (1): 159\u2013184.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new essay on the history of AI by Matteo Pasquinelli for the Berkeley University journal Qui Parle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[66,53,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}