A view that intelligence can grow from learned links between neuron-like units.
Connectionism says intelligence works like a school cafeteria at lunch. Kids switch seats, and friend groups pop up by themselves.
It is the big idea behind neural networks. It later shaped deep learning and large language models.
Neural-network
Connectionism gave Neural-network its core idea.
Deep Learning
Deep Learning is connectionism after computers got much stronger.
Backpropagation
Backprop lets connectionist systems learn useful links.