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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