(Sorry for the delay.) > narrow conception It is there to place constraints. Like when a job description for a teacher included "The incumbent shall refrain f

(Sorry for the delay.) > narrow conception It is there to place constraints. Like when a job description for a teacher included "The incumbent shall refrain from false statements, and shall be able to produce relevant, important true statements from creatively reasoning over solid ideas and logic". I mention "operational relevance" because "we have already invented cats" (i.e. the need remains that of problem solvers). > enough to build a model of the world Sure - and that is very interesting -, but a point of "Intelligence vs acquisition" is that of "Judgement vs prejudice". You get a world model, but if such model is not under active refinement through critical processing (in the sense of criticizing its elements - the ideas), its contents will be "stale" and unreliable. An Intelligent agent verifies its statements upon production (which is part of the refinement process). It is "mission critical". > understanding consequences of simple physical interactions That reminds of the definition from the late Prof. Patrick Winston, "Intelligence is to know what would happen if you ran holding a bucket of gravel, even though you never did that".