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"Intelligence is merely pattern matching and goal oriented planning" > ok you can talk about (parts) of cognition in that way, but it boils down to "we're all Turing machines" which is fine fine fine apart from the issue that what kind of turing machine doing what we do can fit into the soggy stuff in between our ears (as opposed to being able to model a conversation and yet the size of Jupiter with a run time of 2/3 the history of the universe). And there are parts that aren't covered by pattern matching and goal orientated planning such as goal generation and selection (accepting that if a pattern matcher is doing that -somehow - we have to explain how the pattern matcher "knows" to do it)