Associations are made across, by recollection, probabilistically.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• "many apparently very different and interesting organisations and behaviours are in fact closely related as slight variations within a general, parameterisable, n-way associative memory"concept0.774
  Encapsulates Piumarta's core unifying thesis about the generality and power of the associative primitive.
• Finitude and infinite associationconcept0.767
  Paradox: physical page is finite but associative field within creates endless branching; screen space dissolves this constraint.
• The ability to represent relationships (e.g. correlations or associations) among variables, rather than a system of independent variables, is essential for any connectionist model of cognition.claim0.762
  Necessary condition for connectionist cognition.
• There is a many-to-many mapping between neurons and concepts, meaning multiple high-level causal variables might be encoded in overlapping groups of neuronsclaim0.759
  Fundamental theoretical claim motivating DAS, attributed to Smolensky/Rumelhart/McClelland.
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.759
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• The features are often organized in geometrically-related clusters that share a semantic relationship.claim0.755
  Decoder cosine similarity maps onto concept similarity.
• The judgment about life is widely shared and not idiosyncratic; it is roughly consistent from person to person.claim0.754
  Contrasts with the worry that such feelings are purely private.
• The feeling that there is more life in one case than another is correlated with a structural difference in the things themselves, which can be made precise and measured.claim0.752
  Forward‑looking claim that the life quality has an objective basis, to be demonstrated later.