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6.7 Conclusion 125 Bundle of: chicken @—_p food links Fig. 6.9: Example of Implicit Knowledge in the Atomspace. A simple example of implicit knowledge in the Atomspace. The "chicken" and "food" concepts are represented by "maps" of ConceptNodes interconnected by HebbianLinks, where the latter tend to form between Con- ceptNodes that are often simultaneously important. The bundle of links between nodes in the chicken map and nodes in the food map, represents an “implicit, emergent link" between the two concept maps. This diagram also illustrates "glocal" knowledge representation, in that the chicken and food concepts are each represented by individual nodes, but also by distributed maps. The "chicken" ConceptNode, when important, will tend to make the rest of the map important — and vice versa. Part of the overall chicken concept possessed by the system is ex- pressed by the explicit links coming out of the chicken ConceptNode, and part is represented only by the distributed chicken map as a whole. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013041