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The primary criticism asserts that this test operates within a highly constrained, artificial environment that bears little resemblance to the messy, open-ended reality in which human intelligence operates. Natural intelligence evolved in environments where problems are not neatly defined or mathematically explicit but are chaotic, noisy, and complex.
In nature, features like grids or explicit colors seldom serve as meaningful signals in survival or learning—fire-building or hunting did not rely on checking square patterns. Instead, the human brain is optimized for dealing with signal-to-noise ratios, extracting relevant information amid chaos, and creating abstract concepts that transcend simple pattern recognition.