If you are using AI at the moment, then it is probably based on a model of the human neocortex. All of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly inspired by this approach. These architectures are great at abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, and language generation which are all tasks that are analogous to higher-order cortical functions. But is this the path to AGI? We don’t think it is, for reasons that will be explored in this article.