Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 35 of 68

You can't point at a distributed representation

As a general rule, you can’t locate specific items of information by pointing your finger at part of a distributed representation in the same way that you can with a local representation.

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