The more we understand about our own minds, the better equipped we are to create artificial minds in our image. The more we understand about the process by which our minds came to be, the better equipped we are to choose which features of intelligence we want to discard, which we want to preserve, and which we want to improve upon. We are the stalwarts of this grand transition, one that has been fourteen billion years in the making. Whether we like it or not, the universe has passed us the baton.
