Now, Minsky elaborates his notion of the language agency by including recurrent connections. It turns out that this is a definitive property of his SOM architecture.
Why recurrence? "If you start with enough clues to arouse one of your apple-nemes, it will automatically arouse memories of the other properties and qualities of apples and create a more complete impression, `simulus', or hallucination of the experience of seeing, feeling, and even of eating an apple. This way, a simple loop machine can reconstruct a larger whole from clues about only certain of its parts!"
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