The reason I consider that to be a “second order” effect is that without learning a language, humans are little better than the other primates. A large portion of what we consider intelligent behavior is tricks we learn as we acquire language. The ARC dataset makes the claim that the test must include equivalent backgrounds and priors. Without the priors that humans pick up while learning language they would be vastly less than what we normally consider to be human level intelligence.
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