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Originally Posted by mura_gadi
Surprising that I can read? I've even got books without pictures!
Your comment reinforces the point- our increased 'intelligence' is not necessarily a guarantee of survival, and may in fact be counter-survival.
Neville
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There's a great book called Blindsight that delves into this topic. And it's street cred is that it's the only Sci-Fi book that quotes academic sources at the back.. and there is a LOT of peer reviewed science quoted.. pages and pages of it. This is hard sci-fi at it's best.
And the basic premise of it, backed up by neuroscience (turn away now if you don't want it spoiled), is that intelligence is held back by consciousness. The potential for super intelligence would require removing this abstract layer that sits on top (our personality). And almost all of the time, your subconscious has already solved a problem, or is in the middle of solving it, or has already sent a message to your body to "perform function X"... but the conscious layer on top interprets this as "I made this choice" when really, it's more like a CEO receiving a report of what's already happened and then assuming they did the work.