Thankfully, we don't understand things solely via our individual minds, but via our "extended cognition" infrastructure, which is externalized and collective (science itself is a good example of extended cognition). We can understand systems much more complex than ourselves.https://twitter.com/htoyryla/status/1388937931356839943 …
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When we say "humans are intelligent because they can do XYZ", we usually mean that this mechanism -- civilization -- has developed solutions for XYZ, and that individual humans are able to copy those solutions.
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How would the most special and greatest among us fit within this structure? The Einsteins, Turings and Shakespeares of the world
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This is sometimes known as "tradition". A word some advocates for scientism have actually never come across ;)
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