> cognitive I just mean any system of inference over propositions, or anything which looks like it . We are told our frontal lobe is the most unique aspect of

> cognitive I just mean any system of inference over propositions, or anything which looks like it . We are told our frontal lobe is the most unique aspect of our brains: not true! Our motor cortex is. We are the only animal which learns almost all skills after-birth, via our significant and adaptable motor cortex. > Try using it to explain it to someone Yes, concepts need to be converted/reduced to propositional (and then linguistic) forms in order to be cognized and then to be communicated. You can't really acquire a novel basic concept via communication, but you can acquire metaconcepts (like criteria for things) which are just combinations of basic concepts you have already learnt (ie., motor concepts). I'm not saying that there is no propositional content to concepts, ie., that they fail in being instances of some abstract Form. I am saying, rather, what they are; and how we acquire them. I have significant doubts that the world can be conceptualised by mere cognition, ie., that the contents of an inferential process can be arrived at via an inferential process. I think this is an illusion: and it is apparent with machines. There is no mechanism for their understanding what they are processing. We aren't aware, i'd say, at all, of how we actually conceptualise the world. All we're aware of, as far as our intelligence goes, is inference(/cognition). (Though many greats have attributed mysterious immediate insights to the divine: rather it is just their actual intelligence). I think that sets us up for a highly misleading paradigm of intelligence (cf. Cartesian dualism, etc. )