I find humans have variation in ability for this as well though. Like some people need waaay more context, and need everything spelled out in granular detail to understand a topic, vs others who can more easily adapt, pick up clues and other relevant context information.
That's definitely true. I also suspect that holding too much potential context can be counterproductive, because then you have too many options to choose from. This happens a lot with jokes: there are a lot of unique backstories offered by different pop culture references, and pop culture is quickly diversifying to an overwhelming size. There is a lot of entropy in human expression.
The good news is that context can sometimes merge stories together. When we do explicitly find shared context, we tend to leverage that knowledge.
My idea is about offloading as much of this process as possible to a computer. We would still need to choose backstories, but the rest could be done in plain view, leveraging the incredible speed and memory size computers have.
