The Coffee Story
To see how distributed representations can include compositional structure, consider a connectionist representation of coffee.
The representation can be obtained by subtracting a vector representing the microfeatures of cup from a vector representing the microfeatures of cup-with-coffee.

The resulting representation of coffee is context sensitive in a nonclassical way. It is a representation of coffee in the context of a cup.

Paul Smolensky, 1988a.
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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: connectionist networks can think [5a] »Yes: connectionist networks can think [5a]
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The Connectionist Dilemma »The Connectionist Dilemma
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Connectionist representations avoid the dilemma »Connectionist representations avoid the dilemma
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The Coffee Story
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The Regress of Contexts  »The Regress of Contexts
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