Yes, the article appears to be a short excerpt from a book and probably loses a lot of context because of that. I am interested in the questions raised by the author but will wait for the book to come out. The good news is that it appears the book will be open access - MIT Press seems to be encouraging this lately (at least by allowing this as an option for authors).

You can find the full book here: https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/

Oh great flag that it’s open access. Will give this a read.