Or in other words, this thread sure attracts a lot of armchair experts.
... but we also need to be careful with that assertion, because humans do not understand cognition, psychology, or biology very well.
Biology is the furthest developed, but it turns out to be like physics -- superficially and usefully modelable, but fundamental mysteries remain. We have no idea how complete our models are, but they work pretty well in our standard context.
If computer engineering is downstream from physics, and cognition is downstream from biology ... well, I just don't know how certain we can be about much of anything.
> this thread sure attracts a lot of armchair experts.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into our priors..."
Other posters already noted other reasons for it, but I will note that you are saying 'similar to autocomplete, but obviously' suggesting you recognize the shape and immediately dismissing it as not the same, because the shape you know in humans is much more evolved and co do more things. Ngl man, as arguments go, it sounds to me like supercharged autocomplete that was allowed to develop over a number of years.