In Section 7.2 I explained the structurally associative memory by analogy to Quilliannetworks. But, as hinted there, the Quillian network has several undesirable properties not sharedby the STRAM. Some of these are relatively technical, such the fact that the Quillian networkhas no connection with the details of analogical reasoning. But there are also more…
Let us now return to the problem of how a STRAM is to maintain its approximate network-of-emergence structure. One way to approach this optimization problem is via the multilevelmethodology (Goertzel, 1989). This application of the multilevel methodology bears a strongsimilarity to Achi Brandt’s (1985) multilevel algorithm for the Ising spin problem. The first level…
It is rather difficult to study the structure of human long-term memory, since we cannot lookinto a person’s brain or mind to determine the processes by which their memory organizes itself.The only aspect of memory which is open to study is memory access. In particular, a great dealof attention has been devoted to the…
It is clear that analogy cannot work effectively without recourse to an effective method ofstoring patterns. However, I suggest that an even stronger statement holds: the nature of analogyactually dictates a particular type of memory structure. The only way analogy can workeffectively is if it is coupled with a memory that is specifically structured…