it's quite a leap to assume I'm taking a position. I'm a philosopher asking questions of someone who's quite familiar with the essential freedoms we've identified to form a position. if I had take a position, you wouldn't be seeing so many questions, you'd be seeing a lot more assertions.
I had more questions, but I sense the interaction has made you uncomfortable, so I'll leave you alone. thanks for your kindness.
as for why your initial statement surprised me and led me to explore the discrepancy between it and my thoughts, my reasoning had been that we don't need to look at the entire learning history of a person to assess what the person knows of a subject, nor to teach that person something new. my understanding is that our brains are still a lot more complex than model-based generators, so it seems very surprising to me that techniques that work on more complex systems wouldn't be enough for simpler ones. computing theory taught me that you can generally use higher-complexity solutions to solve lower-complexity problems, even if inefficiently, but lower-complexity solutions just don't work for higher-complexity problems.