Bak of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model called his model the sandpile, basically explicitly to remind one of the Sorites paradox. Interesting thing to talk about.

Bak of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model called his model the sandpile, basically explicitly to remind one of the Sorites paradox. Interesting thing to talk about. You can definitely take it as a sort of different descendent of the Ising model: it has had much less influence on the world compared to backpropagation neural net. The dynamical nature of the definition stays, which has bedraggled Sorites people for millenia, but McClelland has been talking about the dynamical nature of representation for decades too. I think some of the anti-neural net cognitive science people (Pinker, Fodor maybe? I forget) brought up some Sorites arguments when fighting the 80's connectionists.