Classifying things via property lists won't work all the time, because properties interact with context. To deal with this, Minsky introduces the term "micronemes", "those inner mental context clues that shade our minds' activities in ways that we can rarely express. There is a somewhat different microstructure to each person's thoughts; indeed, their inexpressibility reflects our individuality." Micronemes will be implemented using K-lines. The sense given here is that they are agents that produce only small or subtle signals, which in turn mitigate which agencies eventually turn on.
(Q: What is the relationship between Minsky's micronemes and Smolensky's subsymbols?)
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