That is an interesting paper, but it does not seem to have much relevance to the claims you have being making, as the distractions were mostly linguistic; they

That is an interesting paper, but it does not seem to have much relevance to the claims you have being making, as the distractions were mostly linguistic; they all had a linguistic component, and only the synthetic OSPAN task, designed to be difficult by combining different types of distraction, included a mathematical component as one of its concurrent distractions. There was no subset of experimental subjects being distracted by problems of differential calculus. (Even if you think calculus would be at least as distracting as the linguistic tasks -- which is actually a debatable proposition -- that would not mean that this paper gives any empirical evidence for that thesis, or for the thesis that language comprehension is, in general, a low-level capability.) from "Again I am talking the minimum threshold..." to the PS, you appear to be trying to perpetuate the tendentious tactic of only comparing simple linguistic tasks with arbitrarily complex tasks of other types. As I pointed out previously, poetry may be complicated, but that does not mean that every other language comprehension task is simple. The PS merely seems to be backtracking from the certainty with which you previously presented your case. I have an additional question about this post [1], where you say "being able to do differential equations and simple conversations but not complex conversations means simple conversations are lower level", which at least strongly suggests that complex conversations are on a higher level than simple conversations. Moravec's paradox, applied to this case, would imply that understanding higher-level (complex) conversations would be computationally simpler than understanding lower-level (simple) conversations. Would you agree with this, or do you think it is an exception to the paradox? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708362