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I received an email from reader Doug Blank (who gave me permission to share it here and to identify him by name) about a perplexing situation:
Janet,
I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot about it.
Although much progress has been made since neurologist Richard Restack called the brain one of science's last frontiers, the functions of some brain areas remain mysterious.
Ambiguity is a constant problem for any embodied cognitive agent with limited resources. Decisions need to be made, and their consequences understood, despite the probabilistic veil of uncertainty enveloping everything from sensory input to action execution.
I've tagged you for a thinking blogger award. I hope that's OK, if not feel free to ignore it. (Not really, I'm just pretending to be gracious.)