Re: Grandmothers Galore?

"Lance Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> I think you are doing Healy an injustice by calling his work
> grandmother cell theory.

Is this an indirect reference to some ongoing argument?

I may need to alter my choice of terms. I was using "grandmother cell"
to mean a binary unit that completely and only represents one concept.
Isn't that correct?

This is the first time I have seen network representation modeled as
symbolic and combinatoric rather than subsymbolic and convolutional.
If I understand G. Heath further above, ANN's were sometimes
restricted in this way to speed learning, but this approach is no
longer popular.

I am trying to find to examples of this approach in the connectionist
literature. Guess the best place to start would be with Grossberg's
ART, unless someone has a better suggestion.

Cheers,
Wendell

> > Here is a good one to start with:
> >
> http://cialab.ee.washington.edu/mjhealy/web/Papers/Colimits%20in%20memory.pd
>