> You center cognition/intelligence on humans as if it was the pinacle of it

That's not my viewpoint, from elsewhere in the thread:

Cognition is (to me) not the most impressive and out-of-reach evolutionary achievement: That would be how our (and animals) bodies are self-assembling, self-repairing and self-replicating, with an impressive array of sensors and actors in a highly integrated package.

I honestly believe our current technology is much closer to emulating a human brain than it is to building a (non-intelligent) cat.