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From Identity to Equivalence

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In this chapter, we dive deeper into the book’s thesis by showing how structures are formed through the identification of equivalence between categories at various scales of analysis .

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Neuman, Y. (2017). From Identity to Equivalence. In: Mathematical Structures of Natural Intelligence. Mathematics in Mind. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68246-4_8

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