The Inverse Problem of Human Intelligence

The great problem of intelligence the great problem that brains are designed to solve is here's a bunch of photons hitting the back of my retina and bits of disturbances at my eardrums. Somehow from that I'm reconstructing there's a chair there's a person there's a microphone there's quarks and leptons and distant black holes and that's exactly what human intelligence enables us to do. Do you think we need to kind of follow the the rough pattern of biological evolution if we want to create something of comparable to hominid intelligence like do you think we will be going through a step of something as smart as a beetle and then somewhere later something as smartAs a mouse and

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