Some of you may have heard my speculation that humans aren't actually intelligent.  It's a humorous way of introducing the question of what a really hyper-intelligent being would be like, a topic that is going to become germane eventually as the technology develops to either enhance human intelligence or create artificial intelligence.  As I mentioned in my last post, any speculation on this part is akin to household pets speculating about advanced areas of human thought...but it is still interesting to ponder, at least attempt to put some boundaries around the question.

 

The easy part is the quantitative stuff:  hyper fast thought and learning, immense calculating ability, parallel thoughts, perfect memory, complete consciousness....etc.    You can imagine the tricks of such a brain:  learn every human language fluently, prove Fermat's theorem (the short version) while solving Chess and composing a hyper-symphony for 1000 instruments.  But what are the topics it would consider?  And what is the role of will in this?  Reason alone is purely contemplative.  What about motivation?

 

There's a book in this topic.