Ambiguities are common in vision, too, but they are resolved so quickly that we often are not aware of their existence. Ambiguities might be resolved by low or high level processes. Minsky leans towards the "New Look" of ambiguity resolution, favouring constraints imposed by higher-order processes. (NB: Ambiguity reduction in vision, as exemplified by solving problems of underdetermination, is often accomplished via constraint satisfaction imposed by recurrent connectionist networks!)
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