The point clearly still stands: every species on the planet has a long list of attributes and behaviors directly attributable to evolution and “pretraining.” An

The point clearly still stands: every species on the planet has a long list of attributes and behaviors directly attributable to evolution and “pretraining.” And many, many more based on education (the things a lioness teaches her cubs.) I’m not sure we would call anyone intelligent today if they had no education. Intelligence relies on building blocks that are only learned, and the “masters” of certain fields are drawing on decades and decades of learnings about their direct experience. So our best examples of intelligence include experience, training, knowledge, evolutionary factors, what have you — so we probably need to draw on that to create a general intelligence. How can we expect to have an intelligence in a certain field if it hasn’t spent a lot of time “ruminating on”/experiencing/learning about/practicing/evolving/whatever, on those types of problems?