Sounds a bit like it's tending towards the behaviour of grid cells. Rather than encoding a specific, unique place, grid cells light up periodically in the laten

Sounds a bit like it's tending towards the behaviour of grid cells. Rather than encoding a specific, unique place, grid cells light up periodically in the latent space they encode, with different grid cells having different periods and different latent spaces. A given combination of grid cells uniquely identifies a thing/space/concept/location/datapoint/... token? Of course for any given location this wraps around with a period of the least common multiple between the grid cells' periods (I think? Had to ask Bing about that one, he was helpful for once). This is why if you try to map locations you get a hypertorus.