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STOCHASTIC nets have been proposed by several authors1–3 as models of cognitive activity. So far, these have been dominated by heuristic constraints designed to show some analogy with the nervous system or merely for ease of computation. An adequate mathematical theory has, as was recognized by Uttley4, to show how such a device can learn relations.
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GOODALL, M. Performance of a Stochastic Net. Nature 185, 557–558 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185557a0
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