Also, those people had little idea what human intelligence is like. Human introspection can only get you so far, and we still don't have the tools to probe the

Also, those people had little idea what human intelligence is like. Human introspection can only get you so far, and we still don't have the tools to probe the brain in large enough scale to be able to figure it out with anything but remote speculation. Hubris goes both ways, but it's the use of the word "hubris" here that is eye popping. Do these guys consider themselves some High Priests of intelligence? It's perfectly fine to dismiss linguists etc after decades of no progress. As the saying goes , every time you remove a linguist the performance goes up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek