[abeppu]

Yeah, I think a problem continues to be that there are a bunch of interesting threads in cognitive science research that have seemed sort of decent as explanations of how animal cognition is working, and maybe directionally reasonable (but incomplete) in suggesting how one might implement it in the abstract, but that doesn't suffice to actually build a mind. If there are a bunch of good hypotheses, you need actual results to show that yours is special. I haven't read this thoroughly, but the author cites and reuses a lot of stuff from the 1970s and 1980s ... but so far as I can tell doesn't really answer why these models didn't pan out to actually build something decades ago.

Today, I think active inference and free energy principle (from Friston) are perhaps having a bit more impact (at least showing up in some RL innovations), but are still a long way off from creating something that thinks like we do.