I agree with much of this, but I think we also need to acknowledge our own ignorance over - how much of the complexity of mammalian neurons is "incidental" com

I agree with much of this, but I think we also need to acknowledge our own ignorance over - how much of the complexity of mammalian neurons is "incidental" complexity, due to also needing to be living, functioning cells, etc as versus "necessary" complexity needed to perform as well as they do - how much specialization between regions and the details of the larger "connectome" are, vs how much can be accomplished by enough repetition of the right local structure (e.g. Hawkins' "thousand brains" etc) > It is reasonable to suppose that the structural complexity of mammal/bird brains is an important part why their cognitive abilities are so much greater than 2024 AI. Statements like this seem a premature to me -- we haven't really had systems with a simple (e.g. repeating) large scale structure and efficient adapting durable-memory-and-compute to really evaluate with, right?