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Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security
The DONSVIC principle: As previously noted, the SP system aims to realize the
DONSVIC principle [20, Section 5.2] and is proving successful in that regard. This
means that structures created or discovered by the system—entities, classes of entity,
and so on—should be ones that people regard as natural. Those kinds of structures are
also likely to be ones that are well suited to representation with static or moving images.
6.12 A Road Map
As mentioned in Section 6.2, it is envisaged that the SP computer model will provide the basis
for the development of a new version of the SP machine. How things may