An observation with scientific paradigm shifts is that they tend not to reverse. Also the lingo someone commented on is that the fundamental problem is the different philosophical views of what knowledge is and can be. Either knowledge is base on symbols and rules like in mathematics or they are probabilities like in anything we actually can measure. Both these views can coexist and maybe AI will find the missing link between them some day. Possibly no human will grasp the link.
Kind of the way our right brain hemisphere does probabilistic computation and the left brain hemisphere does atomistic computation. And we use both.
So, whoever develops the digital equivalent of the corpus callosum wins.