Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 34 of 68

A property spread across many neurons

So, in a distributed representation, a single neuron is unlikely to be responsible for representing the number of legs of our candidate animal. Instead, the number of legs would be represented by a complex pattern of activity over a wide number of neurons. Some of these neurons will play a part in representing some other property in the system.

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