Note/Connectionism feels like a reversion to the neoscholastic period…

Connectionism (i.e., artificial neural networks) feels like a reversion to the neoscholastic period in the sense that the answer as to »why objects fall and steam rises« is as epistemologically informative as »because they seek their natural place;« an answer accepted for thousands of years originated during that (i.e., neoscholastic) period. Reformulated using »connectionist doctrine,« the answer…