{"id":284,"date":"2020-06-27T01:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neomano.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/27\/nuestro-razonamiento-contextual-no-siempre-ayuda\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T06:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T06:33:33","slug":"nuestro-razonamiento-contextual-no-siempre-ayuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neomano.com\/en\/our-contextual-reasoning-doesnt-always-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Our contextual reasoning doesn't always help"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago I was passing through the Santiago de Chile airport and while I was waiting for my flight, sitting in the departure lounge, I noticed that someone in the distance was holding my hand. I didn't know who it was but out of courtesy I responded by also raising my hand while putting on a face of "nice to see you", which must have looked more like "who are you !?"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent the entire flight back to Guayaquil trying to discover the identity of the character. The most mortifying thing was that the face became familiar to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I was making a stopover (in transit) on a flight from Buenos Aires, I began to consider the possibility of having met him in that city, but I did not remember anything that would allow me to discover his identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth mentioning that it is not common, at least for me, to meet an acquaintance in an airport in a distant city so it occurred to me that maybe I met him on the outbound flight, but again I could not relate the face with no memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose that many have had that feeling of having a name on the tip of their tongues ... Well, that's how I walked during the days after the trip, until I suppose that unconsciously I decided to give up and leave this matter to "unsolved mysteries." A friend once told me that in these situations it was better not to try to remember and that the brain<\/a>hopefully he takes care of sorting things out himself. I was never convinced by that theory but I ended up thinking it was the best thing in this situation. Why give more thought to the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will have been at least four weeks, when one afternoon I left my house and saw my neighbor (who lives 3 houses from mine) getting into his vehicle. I immediately recognized him, he was the guy from the airport, my neighbor! How could I be so stupid not to have recognized him at the airport!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the joy of having finally solved the riddle, I began to feel somewhat sorry for having greeted him somewhat coldly at the airport. Not that we were friends for a lifetime, but at least I greeted him warmly every time I saw him and we had briefly chatted on occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This whole situation led me to reflect on the way our mind works when it tries to recognize an object or a character. It seems correct to assume that the conclusions our brain reaches depend on the context in which we find ourselves. This is how I was able to recognize my neighbor almost immediately when I saw him in my neighborhood, but it was very difficult for me to recognize him at the Santiago airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember some time ago reading in a magazine about a speech recognition algorithm that used a similar technique to increase its effectiveness. The algorithm in question tried to relate a conversation to a topic, depending on the words used in the conversation. Previously, the algorithm had "learned" the probability of finding a certain word in a conversation depending on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, we are more likely to hear the word "altar" if we are in a church than if we are in the stadium watching a football game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general it seems to be a clever tactic of our brain, but it was clear to me that it does not always help.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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