The utility is demonstrated of a parallel distributed processing (PDP) approach to processing certain kinds of information of interest to designers. The information is of the kind that could be stored on a Hypercard stack, A system which facilitates the automatic linking of information on the basis of similarity is demonstrated. This approach fits within an overall framework of design reasoning by association.
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