Knowledge Fusion in the Large - taking a cue from the brain

Even the most commonplace cognitive behaviors such as vision and languageunderstandinginvolve large-scale fusion of disparate pieces of evidence. Therefore,our capacity to rapidly and effortlessly produce coherent interpretations of visual and verbal inputs points to the remarkable ability of the human mind/brain to fuse evidence. We discuss a neurally motivated computational model that attempts to replicate some of this remarkable ability, and illustrate the functioning of the model with the help of a few examples.