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Isn't it possible that intelligence is P(words|every sequence of words you've ever heard)?


Then where would sensible words come from, for the first time, in hominid history?


P(sounds when object is present|random sounds other people made when object was present) ?


No, you’re conflating System 1 thinking and System 2 thinking.


Possible? Maybe. I believe we know enough now, however, to conclude that it’s astonishingly unlikely.




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