This is one of those things I’d love to be wrong on. I think your point on combining them with other models is interesting.
Do you think that Markov chains can reason and plan? Dijkstra’s algorithm? Curious where you draw the line
Do you think that Markov chains can reason and plan? Dijkstra’s algorithm? Curious where you draw the line
Our brains however are highly modular (a “committee of idiots”) so who’s to say a portion, and even a significant one, doesn’t operate on similar principles?
These are ballpark counts of cells in crow’s brain, a human’s brain, and a human body. The question is, is it the cells themselves doing the reasoning and planning, or are they just the machinery this disembodied process happens to be running on? I’d argue intelligence is a distributed phenomenon that our DNA is as much a party to as our brains.
Certainly the question of whether humans use DNA to reproduce or DNA uses humans is a matter of perspective.