Minsky briefly describes Mooers' scheme to get a high degree of functional connectivity with a small amount of physical connections. "The trick is to make each transmitting-agent excite not one, but five of those wires, chosen at random from the available ten. Then each receiving-agent is provided with an AND-agent connected to recognize the same five-wire combination.
How might such connections arise? Essentially, Minsky views the receiving agents as perceptrons, which means we wind up with something like association via the delta rule!
(This is getting more and more connectionist in spirit!)
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