Max S. Bennett in his marvelous A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains, writes that “if Mountcastle's theory is correct, it suggests that the neocortical column implements some algorithm that is so general and universal that it can be applied to extremely diverse functions such as movement, language, and perception across every sensory modality.”

Is general and universal human cortical processing consistent with some parts of the human brain having specialized social and other functions? If consistent, how so?