> It doesn't seem implausible to me that there is some general complexity theory law which prohibits intelligence "understanding" itself. What about collective

> It doesn't seem implausible to me that there is some general complexity theory law which prohibits intelligence "understanding" itself. What about collective intelligence? What could prevent many intelligent agents from collectively reverse-engineering the algorithms they are individually running? Let say they then build a simulator and can use it to predict how any possible instantiation of their intelligence would behave. Can they (collectively) "understand" it any more than that? What question could you pose to test if they really understood it "from above"?