Neural activity has a dual nature—simultaneously continuous in high-dimensional space (full brain state) and discrete (discrete set of attractor states)—similar to how modern AI systems represent symbols as vectors, bridging symbolic and continuous representations.
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Yoshua BengioEvidence Quote
“what happens is when you experience something, you have the full continuous highdimensional state of your brain. But what you communicate is is what and also what goes into your memory is this uh very special state which is an attractor and that can be translated into symbols because it's discrete by nature”
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