@article {Haybron:August 2000:0924-6495:361,
	author = "Haybron D.M.",
	title = "The Causal and Explanatory Role of Information Stored in Connectionist Networks",
	journal = "Minds and Machines",
	volume = "10",
	year = "August 2000",
	abstract = "<P>In this paper I defend the propriety of explaining the behavior of distributed connectionist networks by appeal to selected data stored therein. In particular, I argue that if there is a problem with such explanations, it is a consequence of the fact that information storage in networks is superpositional, and not because it is distributed. I then develop a ``proto-account'' of causation for networks, based on an account of Andy Clark's, that shows even superpositionality does not undermine information-based explanation. Finally, I argue that the resulting explanations are genuinely informative and not vacuous.</P>",
	pages = "361-380(20)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/mind/2000/00000010/00000003/00258827"
}