ABSTRACT
The ultimate goal of AI is to emulate the human cognitive processes. During the brief history of AI, two main schools have competed with each other in this endeavor, namely the symbolic and the connectionist schools. Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus (1988, p. 15) have summarized this division by their famous phrase: making a mind vs modeling the brain. So far, neither of these schools has achieved the final goal. A new research field is growing more and more important at present, one which aims at combining the two schools into neurosymbolic models with the capacities of both the symbolic and connectionist models.
