4 claims in “cognitive science, neuroscience”
Babies and animals learn primarily through observation and self-supervised learning, acquiring basic concepts like object permanence at 9 months, intuitive physics (gravity, inertia) by age 10 months, and the difference between animate and inanimate objects without explicit instruction.
Variation in human intelligence reflects differences in compute capacity; individuals with more intelligence have more compute in order to do search over more Turing machines for longer.
Global workspace theory provides a cognitive architecture model where multiple parallel processes compete for attention, with winning processes broadcasting their information throughout the entire brain, and this distributed competition and broadcasting mechanism might be necessary but is not sufficient for consciousness.
Variation in human intelligence reflects differences in computational capacity for search over Turing machines; more intelligent people simply have more compute to search over more Turing machines for longer.