> humans CAN do. I think people often get confused with claims - Humans CAN generalize - Humans CAN reason - Humans CAN be intelligent - Humans CAN be

> humans CAN do. I think people often get confused with claims - Humans CAN generalize - Humans CAN reason - Humans CAN be intelligent - Humans CAN be conscious Generalization[0] is something MOST humans CAN do, but MOST humans DO NOT do. Do not confuse "can" and "are". One of my pet peeves is how often qualifying words are just ignored. They are critical parts of any communication.[1] Another pet peeve is over anthropomorphization. Anthropomorphism is a useful tool, but.. well... we CAN over generalize ;) [0] I don't know what you mean by "true generalization". I'm not going to address that because you can always raise the bar for what is "true" and let's try to be more concrete. Maybe I misunderstand. I definitely misunderstand. [1] Classic example: someone says "most x are y" then there's a rebuttal of "but x_1 isn't y" or "I'm x and I'm not y" or some variation. Great! Most isn't all? This is not engaging in good faith and there's examples found with any qualifying word. It is quite common to see.