interpolation vs generalisation

[Marek W Lugowski]

would Pentti Kanerva's model of associative memory fit in with your
definition of analogical inference?  It seems that the input of successive
binary vectors to his distributed memory creats a structure in Hamming
space, often creating never-before seen resident vectors...  which are then
evoked.

				-- Marek

P.s.  On the other hand, Jim Keeler shows that Kanerva memory and 
Hopfield nets can have a common notation, so I am confused.  After all
Hoopfield nets are connectionist.