Why do we lose track in language, but not in vision? "One reason is that our visual-systems support more simultaneously operating processes than our language-systems can, and this reduces the need for any process to interrupt the other one." In language, it takes lots of learning to keep track well.
(NB: First, FINST stuff suggests that visual "keeping track" is harder, or perhaps more important, than Minsky believes. Second, I think that the distinction between vision and language in terms of the number of required interrupts is really very, very clever.)
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