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In an attempt to approach the “intelligent” cybernetic functions as physical processes, one of the first tasks is to assign state variables to the conceptual items to be processed, as well as to the connections that obviously exist between them. The principles of the symbolic representation of information in computers may be well-known; it is much less obvious how the connections should be described. One possibility, especially in the representation and analysis of linguistic expressions, is to introduce elementary relations which consist of a pair of items and a symbolic attribute that links the items together (cf. Subsec. 1.1.2). It is possible to create rather complicated structures of concepts from elementary relations, and a widely held view is that knowledge in general might be representable by such relational structures.
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Kohonen, T. (1977). Introduction. In: Associative Memory. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96384-1_1
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