The Evolution

The Evolution
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In what follows it will be argued that in such a Type II situation
memory's best strategy is to disambiguate "knife" as that form of
"knife" most strongly linked to "hospital."

An example of a Type III situation would be if memory unambig-
uously perceived two concepts, A and B, where emanating from each was
a set of whole-to-whole links. For instance, if "Florida"
(whole-to-whole links with "sunshine," "beaches," "orange juice,"
etc.) occurred successively with "eggs" (whole-to-whole links with
"toast," "bacon," "orange juice," etc.), memory could use the infor-
mation offered by each profile to form a single composite profile of
what is likely. Such a profile might (or might not) indicate "orange
juice" as the most probable. "Orange juice," as the only concept
receiving statistical support from both profiles, is by definition
the intersected concept, and whether or not it would be evaluated and
yielded as most likely would depend on the particular probabilities
involved.

In the above Type I situation "sun" is the intersected concept;
in the above Type II situation it is "scalpel."

There are a few technical points that must be noted about the above
situations .

First, there are two ways memory may treat a Type I situation
such as "bright yellow.” It could, on the one hand, simply temporarily
establish in memory "brightness" and "yellowness" without yielding any-
thing in particular; or it could, on the other hand, yield by intersection
the particular concept "sun," a concept available for retrieval from

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