I agree with you but only while limiting the scope to the best that can be done for a biological agent which must pass through a birth canal and evolved under strong resource limits.
Can you apply intelligence to more than one person? Can a group of 10 people be considered intelligent as a whole? What about 100? Can you distinguish between the intelligence of different equally sized groups? I say yes to all of those.
Let us say we put groups of 1, 10, 100, 10^n people in a box and gave each box intelligence tests. Which would be most intelligent? Eventually communication costs will outweigh size advantages but only at some n >>0. So a trivial example of an entity whose intelligence surpasses a single human intelligence. Now why do you expect that this level of computation and knowledge management is not replicable on a smaller more efficient device not distracted by the need to calculate proprioception?
Next consider effective intelligence. Do computers when used in the right way amplify intelligence? Is it possible that a human/computer interface is possible? Forget self awareness, is it possible that a computer could do what all of what we call intelligent work better than humans? The answer to all of these is more subjective, especially the last, but I say yes. The human brain is one architecture for intelligence. It is riddled with weaknesses that only make sense when considering the resource limited nature of its development. It was created under a specific set of constraints - a vehicle to manage the more effective transmissions of genes of an energy limited biological entity that must pass a birth canal. I believe that the human mind set on designing an intelligence can do better.
Will a superhuman mind do better at designing a mind in a proportionally similar way to how humans will surpass evolution? Or will they hit too many NP complete problems? The answer to this I cannot give but if forced to bet would be yes, yes.
Can you apply intelligence to more than one person? Can a group of 10 people be considered intelligent as a whole? What about 100? Can you distinguish between the intelligence of different equally sized groups? I say yes to all of those.
Let us say we put groups of 1, 10, 100, 10^n people in a box and gave each box intelligence tests. Which would be most intelligent? Eventually communication costs will outweigh size advantages but only at some n >>0. So a trivial example of an entity whose intelligence surpasses a single human intelligence. Now why do you expect that this level of computation and knowledge management is not replicable on a smaller more efficient device not distracted by the need to calculate proprioception?
Next consider effective intelligence. Do computers when used in the right way amplify intelligence? Is it possible that a human/computer interface is possible? Forget self awareness, is it possible that a computer could do what all of what we call intelligent work better than humans? The answer to all of these is more subjective, especially the last, but I say yes. The human brain is one architecture for intelligence. It is riddled with weaknesses that only make sense when considering the resource limited nature of its development. It was created under a specific set of constraints - a vehicle to manage the more effective transmissions of genes of an energy limited biological entity that must pass a birth canal. I believe that the human mind set on designing an intelligence can do better.
Will a superhuman mind do better at designing a mind in a proportionally similar way to how humans will surpass evolution? Or will they hit too many NP complete problems? The answer to this I cannot give but if forced to bet would be yes, yes.