Afterthoughts on Modernist Necropoles

Afterthoughts on Analogical Representations1

In 1971 I wrote a paper attempting to relate some old philosophical issues about representation and reasoning to problems in Artificial Intelligence. A major theme of the paper was the importance of distinguishing “analogical” from “Fregean” representations. I still think the distinction is important, though perhaps not as important for current problems in A.I. as I used to think. In this paper...

Some Afterthoughts on Hoppeld Networks

The present paper investigates four relatively independent issues, each in one section, which complete our knowledge regarding the computational aspects of popular Hoppeld nets 9]. In Section 2, the computational equivalence of convergent asymmetric and Hoppeld nets is shown with respect to the network size. In Section 3, the convergence time of Hoppeld nets is analyzed in terms of bit represen...

Some Afterthoughts on Hopfield Networks

The present paper investigates four relatively independent issues each in one section which complete our knowledge regarding the computational aspects of popular Hop eld nets In Section the computational equivalence of convergent asymmetric and Hop eld nets is proved with respect to the network size In Section the convergence time of Hop eld nets is analyzed in terms of bit representations In S...

Some Thoughts and Afterthoughts on Medical Education

Several months ago the State University of New York conducted a Symposium on General Education which was designed as an opportunity for the exchange of ideas among representatives of the many constituent units of the University. In response to a request to present a statement on general education in relation to medical education I prepared a short paper which, I thought, contained a representat...

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts