So our brains can sometimes piece together a lot from incomplete information (sometimes, incorrectly to grave consequences). How does this ability function in a more formal and scientific, and what are the limits.
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Just like how the brain does anything. Through complex connected neurons.
This sounds trivial, but the brain really does everything it can with just building a network of neurons randomly until one happens to accidentally solve the task and this is kept then.
Read a bit about how artificial neuron networks are used in AI. It’s just very simple objects connected in a network. Reinforcing networks that work, and removing those that don’t is how brains learn, therefore the “how” for each mental ability looks like pure chaos to our eyes.
This “filling the gaps” is based on heuristics. It basically compares the incomplete information to situations it knows already and picks the closest match. But a lot of decision making in humans is based on that, for example how we feel about a Person.
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