One particular consequence of this dynamic emergent nature of the architecture is that, although all micro-level processing is strictly deterministic, the macroscopic behavior of a DUAL system can be described only probabilistically. Again, due to space limitations we will consider only a small fraction of the model's mechanisms . Analog access in AMBR is done by means of spreading activation by the connectionist aspects of the DUAL agents. In particular, only few of the many episodes stored in the long-term memory are active during a run and only they are accessible for processing. This network consists of hypothesis agents representing tentative correspondences between two elements.
Consistent hypotheses support, and incompatible ones inhibit each other.
In other words, the model departs from the classical 'pipeline' paradigm and aims at a more interactive account of analogy making. The influence between the two subprocesses in AMBR goes in both directions. The next section describes a simulation experiment that sheds light on this kind of influence.