I'm talking about learning modularly. Children can categorize things they've never seen before by inventing labels on the spot, they're not limited to selecting

I'm talking about learning modularly. Children can categorize things they've never seen before by inventing labels on the spot, they're not limited to selecting from a preexisting set (e.g. a lion is a "big cat"). They can recognize novelty and ask questions if nothing they know quites fit. As a human, you are able to learn the general concept of leg and understand it, even if it is in a context you have never seen before and an object you've never seen or never seen used in that way before. Everything you learn, is also as part of a set of relations. Each of individual concept modified in a precise manner as you learn something new about any of them. A big part of human intelligence, from the simple naming of things, to the highest levels of science is taking parts of things you know and putting them together in novel ways. In Neural nets this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02799 https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02799 is in line of what I mean.