All encompassing representations can't be processed

The all purpose representation a front-end module would provide to a computer model would have to encode a vast amount of information, enough to adapt to all contexts and analogies it might be used in—making it too bulky for efficient processing.

David Chalmer, Robert French & Douglas Hofstadter 1995.
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