Historically, there have been two opposing views of cognition. One in which intelligence is a general ability to learn from arbitrary data, and one in which intelligence is the result of a myriad of special-purpose systems shaped by millions of years of evolution.
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According to the second view, the mind is a collection of advanced cognitive processes hard-wired by evolution, and being merely tuned through embodied experience. Humans' ability for language, for ex, would be an evolved prior, something that thinkers like Chomsky have defended.
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Importantly, it has been at least 15 yrs since we've gathered enough evidence to rule out both views. Although the second view has largely fallen out of favor, the first view is, shockingly, still going strong among people who have no context on the history of cognitive science.
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Perhaps not a human brain - some of them are quite general purpose but not completely so - but a more general version of it would do those things. A problem with a fully general purpose mechanism of intelligence is getting it started. It can be primed but that's not easy to do.
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