[olewhalehunter]

at a first glance this looks like it's going back to old 80s research on neural representations, back then this kind of stuff was known as Parallel Distributed Processing

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/parallel-distributed-processi...

[grandalf]

Indeed. A blast from the past.

Oddly the capsule approach is how I naively thought image recognition worked until I learned more about it.