Minsky brings to our attention the fact that when agents are interconnected, each agent might have multiple inputs and multple outputs. Finally, he makes a move towards explicit connectionism. We now get an essentially explicit statement (with his talk of Boltzman machines) that SOM boils down to a connectionist network, that has local encoding (possibly in connections, as mentioned at the end of the section), and recurrent processing.
(NB: My hypothesis: Minsky's 1986 revolution was recurrent, local connectionism!)
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