I agree. I guess the assumption is that there is a low-d description of behavioral and/or neural functions that only realize with the "right" basis set. Though that assumption itself may or may not be correct.

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In the last 10 years there have been multiple papers worrying whether we have the right cognitive ontology and/or how to get there, with little attention to goals. I get the worry but why are we so sure there’s a single general purpose basis that we need to find before we do anything else or at all?

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We can probably isolate most cognitive processes in experimental designs, but how ecologically valid is that? If our tasks force artificial independence between processes, do the conclusions neatly generalize to real-world scenarios where those processes are deeply entangled?

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So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!

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Evidence of spatial mapping in mice with no cortex or hippocampus! Whoa, they even retain memories over days. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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