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Comment author: MrMind 07 July 2015 07:14:28AM 0 points [-]

I've yet to read the paper, so forgive me if it's repeated there (but I will read it), but the situation is similar to NP problems: hard to find a solution, easy to check a solution.
Maybe concepts are NP problems encoded in our brains.