The idea that you had to instrumentally combine perceptual and symbolic reasoning has been around since at least the 1970s and has been implemented variously (s

The idea that you had to instrumentally combine perceptual and symbolic reasoning has been around since at least the 1970s and has been implemented variously (see, for example: Hermina J.M. Tabachneck-Schijf, Anthony M. Leonardo, Herbert A. Simon (1997) CaMeRa: A Computational Model of Multiple Representations). What those models didn't do is learn, but just pouring learning into that sort of model and hoping it will magically become a GAI seems like an implementation idea without a theory.