But the fun part is taking these contemplations and applying them to what’s next for cognition. Just imagine this. Just imagine that five hundred years from now people look back on us the same way we do on those Ice Age hominids who couldn’t speak. What if we, one day, will be as far behind cognitively, relatively, as cavemen are to us? Is there any reason to believe at all we have reached the peak of human consciousness and ability? The burden of proof is in many ways on those thinking we have somehow hit a ceiling than it is on anyone claiming we haven’t.
