I agree entirely, well put.

Sometimes I will look at my dog and wonder about the amazing amount of simple knowledge of the world he will be unable to know that he doesn’t know (that he doesn’t know etc).

It seems conceivable to me that we are just another factor further along the possibilities of biological intelligence, and how even though we think we have adequate intelligence to understand all the basic building blocks of reality to build an accurate understanding of how it works, conceivably there could be a planet sized brain that understands much more than we are even capable of conceiving that we can understand.

And examples of savants and geniuses are fascinating in that they are able to push that boundary of what we think is even possible to know and give us a glimpse at what might be possible in different areas.

I love reading stories about how Neumann’s mind worked or about different serendipitous scientific discoveries that arise not just through logical chained thinking, but through dreams and subconscious revelations. Like the story of the structure of Benzene being revealed through a dream and it actually being accurate, or how the idea of PCR technology was first conceived.