Here's what we know...
Human brains are made of large numbers of cells with interconnections (fan in or fan out) ratios up (but often a lot lower) about 10 000.
As are every other multicelluar organism I'm aware of.
Transistors on chips have fan outs/ins < 10.
We think we're intelligent so we know this architecture works.
There is little evidence other architectures can do things we call intelligent on the scale we do them. Most "AI" projects I've looked into seem to scale up very badly.
BTW Something people forget about language. It evolved (by people) to be spoken to people.
IRL The fact I could spout a 14 word sentence that has 47 parses would be met by the person I was saying it to along the lines of "WTF are you babbling about? Were you on a Texas hill? Did this guy have a telescope? You're talking bo***ks"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
