My statement isn't so much that we listen to Hawkins but rather that the point put forward by Hawkins (among others) in recent years is the point around which w

My statement isn't so much that we listen to Hawkins but rather that the point put forward by Hawkins (among others) in recent years is the point around which we should focus our efforts. You can't build a computational model if you have nothing that realistically reflects the requirements of the thing that you wish to model as instantiated in reality as we know it.