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The pattern associated with any pattern in which only two neurons that are separated by a single neuron are excited is the pattern formed by the activation of those two neurons. This means that when those two neurons are excited, the network retrieves the pattern associated with them.
If the network is initialized with all its neurons inhibited, it means that none of the neurons are activated or firing. In this state, the network would not be able to recall or associate any specific pattern since there is no activation to trigger any associative memory retrieval.
