@themanual4am I like the way you wrote the background section. That feels right to me. I’d take it further and say that we’ve also been overly impressed with ourselves, and our big neocortex which, for a while, seemed to be the thing that separates us from the “lower” animals. We hold it up as the pinnacle of intelligence, and build artificial neural networks inspired by it. But, it’s literally the newest, least developed part of the brain, which is the newest, least developed organ of the body. It’s a relatively simple, homogeneous sheet of neural tissue that wraps the much more complicated and heterogeneous structure of the “primitive” brain. I like to think of it as just an extra level of general abstraction and elaboration over the very special-purpose evolved computer underneath. That’s what’s led us to this “all at once” approach, which is amazing, but will never answer the deep questions of what intelligence is. We’ve mistaken the icing for the whole cake and kitchen.