Symbol processing can take place in parallel
A classical system can be implemented in a parallel architecture: eg by executing multiple symbolic processes at the same time. So parallel processing systems, like connectionist networks, have no principled advantage over classical symbol systems.

Jerry Fodor & Zenon Phylysyn (1988).
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