Distributed vs. local representation
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| Abstract | been to define various notions of distribution in terms of represented by one and the same distributed pattern (Mur- structures of correspondence between the represented items dock 1979). For example, it is standard in feedforward and the representational resources (e.g., van Gelder 1992). connectionist networks for one and the same set of synap- This approach may be misguided; the essence of this alter- tic weights to represent many associations between input native category of representation might be some other prop- and output. erty entirely. For example, Haugeland (1991) has suggested • Equipotentiality In some cases, an item is represented by | |||||||||
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