Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

—“The fact is that, there are still zillions of things which the human mind can do but have not been done yet”—Frederick Xose Magni Mensah

Hmmmm….. I think I could convince you that the best of human minds are unlimited in patterns they can accumulate, deflate, apply, and distribute as re-framings to the hierarchy of masses who can later make use of them by rational choice, being taught, or environmental saturation and indoctrination.

But I am pretty sure the ability to IDENTIFY patterns will be (in the next few decades or century) measurable. And that the measure will consist of distances in dimensions of change between the current and future state.

So the illusion we are getting terribly smarter is simply a product of the fact that the universe’s sets of laws: physical, cooperative, and sentient, are *simple* and we are deducing them backwards from complex effects, a ‘generation’ at a time – ever more precisely – then set back by errors, failures, political and religious movements and dark ages.

But the problem we face and will continue to, is that inorder to make incremental leaps in understanding, we must reduce cmoplexity to an analogy to experience that the brain can work with, and the brain can work with experiences within the realm of possible human action.

I know this is quantifiable but I don’t yet know how to quantify it without producing an AI that we can measure ourselves against.

So you are right to some degree. But I am simply inserting a bit of caution: we are not unlimited. But we are unlimited enough that over time we will exceed most limits. 😉