I made no claims contrary to anything in your post; your response — none of which I disagree with — makes me worry that you are coming in with a preexisting bel

I made no claims contrary to anything in your post; your response — none of which I disagree with — makes me worry that you are coming in with a preexisting belief and just looking for reasons it must be true. That said, there are plenty of multimodal networks (ie not slideshows), and we know very little about the relevance to intelligence of the “richness” of neural connections, activations, etc. — but it’s inarguable that we’ve made great strides in scale alone.