What? Was everyone blind before the discovery of quantum mechanics? If we can't measure things we don't understand, how the heck would we come to understand them? Through their affects on the world? "No, you say, "we can not perceive things whose causes we don't understand." Where did you get your epistemology? Was it The Secret?
Karl Popper.
>If we can't measure things we don't understand, how the heck would we come to understand them?
We get new ideas, such as the concept of distance, by guessing them in response to problems.
It is possible to be intelligent and unwilling to follow instructions. In fact, I would not be surprised if there was an inverse correlation between the two in humans.
True. But whether an instruction has been followed is easy to measure and relates directly to language, unlike the other criteria in Table 1.
Also, note that chimps are capable of tearing limbs from humans. So if people could be bred from them I would like them to be basically friendly and cooperative.