Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind - a vision that has important implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, of mental causation, and of representational change.Combining philosophical argument, empirical results, and interdisciplinary speculations, Clark charts a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more dynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view.

安迪·克拉克（Andy Clark）认为，连接主义方法正在推动认知科学对其解释努力进行彻底的重新认识。这种再认识的核心是向一种新的、更深入的心智发展愿景的转变，这种愿景对哲学和心理学理解概念、心智因果关系和表征变化的本质具有重要意义，在跨学科的思考中，克拉克描绘了认知科学主题从静态的、内部代码导向的概念到更动态的、发展丰富的、过程导向的观点的根本转变。