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Abstract:
Historically, connectionist systems have not excelled at
representing and manipulating complex structures. How can a system
composed of simple neuron-like computing elements encode complex
relations? Recently, researchers have begun to appreciate that
representations can extend in both time and space. Many researchers
have proposed that the synchronous firing of units can encode
complex representations. I identify the limitations of this
approach and present an asynchronous model of binding that
effectively represents complex structures. The asynchronous model
extends the synchronous approach. I argue that our cognitive
architecture utilizes a similar mechanism.
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