I'd also say I've sufficient expertise in animal learning to reject the idea that animals have shallow interior lives comprised of compressions of historical cases.
A child touches a fireplace once -- not a thousand times. Because they are in direct causal contact with the world and their body has a whole-organism biochemical reaction to that stimulus which radically conditions their bodies in all sorts of ways
This is a world apart from statistical learning wherein P(A|A causes B) and P(A|B) are indistinguishable -- and the bridge of "big data" merely illusory
A child touches a fireplace once -- not a thousand times. Because they are in direct causal contact with the world and their body has a whole-organism biochemical reaction to that stimulus which radically conditions their bodies in all sorts of ways
This is a world apart from statistical learning wherein P(A|A causes B) and P(A|B) are indistinguishable -- and the bridge of "big data" merely illusory