Symbol structures can be distributed
A classicial symbol processor can be physically distributed in memory, and can thereby exhibit graceful degradation. So distributed systems like connectionist networks don't have any principled advatange over physical symbol systems.


Jerry Fodor & Zenon Pylyshyn (1988).
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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
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Can computers think? [1] »Can computers think? [1]
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Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3] »Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3]
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The Biological Assumption »The Biological Assumption
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Brain has a von Neumann architecture »Brain has a von Neumann architecture
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Processing in the brain is distributed »Processing in the brain is distributed
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Graceful degradation »Graceful degradation
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Symbol structures can be distributed
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Spatial distribution is inadequate »Spatial distribution is inadequate
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Jerry Fodor »Jerry Fodor
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Zenon Pylyshyn »Zenon Pylyshyn
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