It is a truism that most of us carry out our everyday commonsense tasks with very little conscious effort or analysis. Indeed to find everyday tasks formidably complex can often be a sign of mental illness or disability. The world of artificial intelligence, however, shows that commonsense is actually very complex and that commonsense reasoning is very difficult to simulate with a computer. Our scientific understanding of commonsense is likely to change as we gradually understand more about how the human mind works. At the moment, however, how commonsense 'works' is something that is somehow hidden from scientists, even though it is part of our everyday experience. And perhaps that is how we
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