Because what we call intelligence (the human kind) usually is just an emergent property of the wielding of various combinations of fist or second-hand experience by “consciousness” which itself is…
What we like to call the tip of a huge fucking iceberg of constant lifelong internal dialogues, overlapping and integrating experiences all the way back to the memories (engrams, assemblies, neurons that wired together to represent something), even the ones so old or deep we can’t even summon them any longer, but often are still measurable, still there, integrating like lego bricks with other assemblies.
Humans continuously, reflexively, recursively tell and re-tell our own stories to ourselves all day, and even at night, just to make sense of the connections we made today, how to use them tomorrow, to know how they relate to connections we made a lifetime ago, and how it fits in the larger story of us. That “context integration window” absolutely DWARFS even the deepest language model, even though our own organic “neural net” is low-power, lacks back-propagation, etc etc, and it is all done using language.
So yes, language is not the same as intelligence (though at some point some would ask “who can tell the difference?”) HOWEVER… The semantic taxonomies, symbolic cognition, and various other mental tools that are enabled by language are absolutely, verifiably required for this gargantuan context integration to take place.
Because what we call intelligence (the human kind) usually is just an emergent property of the wielding of various combinations of fist or second-hand experience by “consciousness” which itself is…
What we like to call the tip of a huge fucking iceberg of constant lifelong internal dialogues, overlapping and integrating experiences all the way back to the memories (engrams, assemblies, neurons that wired together to represent something), even the ones so old or deep we can’t even summon them any longer, but often are still measurable, still there, integrating like lego bricks with other assemblies.
Humans continuously, reflexively, recursively tell and re-tell our own stories to ourselves all day, and even at night, just to make sense of the connections we made today, how to use them tomorrow, to know how they relate to connections we made a lifetime ago, and how it fits in the larger story of us. That “context integration window” absolutely DWARFS even the deepest language model, even though our own organic “neural net” is low-power, lacks back-propagation, etc etc, and it is all done using language.
So yes, language is not the same as intelligence (though at some point some would ask “who can tell the difference?”) HOWEVER… The semantic taxonomies, symbolic cognition, and various other mental tools that are enabled by language are absolutely, verifiably required for this gargantuan context integration to take place.