Coherence in the Brain
In discussing perception, I contrasted the step-by-step, language-based inferences that occur in speaking or writing with the parallel, often non-linguistic kinds of inference performed by brains. Because people argue about the best explanation of crimes or scientific experiments, it seems at first that inferences to hypotheses are made serially and linguistically. But the brain does it differently, with multimodal representations of hypotheses and causality, and with parallel assessments of coherence.