> Premise 2: No Quantum Shenanigans > But for most of us, this is an easy premise to accept.

I'm baffled by this statement and wonder if that really is true, I would assume otherwise if you look outside the western IT bubble.

But even if you don't have religious reasons for rejecting this statement, how can you know that there aren't aspects to intelligence that we completely overlook (an unknown unknown) today?

The whole situation could look like the cargo cult situation, where we build something that looks like the real thing but we're far from understanding the real thing. Historically we've done this mistake again and again.

But I get that working like such premises were true might be necessary to make progress. And progress is basically iterating into the right direction.