Ambiguity could be viewed as the activation of more than one polyneme. But context activates other agents, which will support some polynemes and inhibit others. Ambiguity is thus weeded out.
When ambiguity is gone, an interpretation is locked in. Sometimes, though, this will lead to a mistake, which must be corrected. Minsky's solution is to inhibit currently active agents (e.g., a B-brain could do this!), and then start the weeding-out process again. (NB: This procedure is very, very much like the kind of processing that Grossberg describes in a particular type of connectionist architecture, ART!)
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