You're welcome. We're talking about the collaborative work of countless human brains adding on to each other's work. Every bit of progress in humanity is the

You're welcome. We're talking about the collaborative work of countless human brains adding on to each other's work. Every bit of progress in humanity is the work of an individual, either working individually or in group. Collaboration still revolves around individual contributions. In a lot of cases (e.g. group discussions and brainstorms) we get the impression that it's the group producing the result, but in reality it's incremental individual work. You're claiming that collaboration can overcome the issue (complex brain understanding it's own complexity). I claim it can't : the ceiling of what can be achieved depends on what the smartest brain (so to speak) can comprehend and tie together. An ant doesn't know how its colony functions, it takes a human to capture that. Same for us, it takes a more evolved brain to understand what makes us tick, we'll only sample aspects of it. A system can never be complex enough to understand its own complexity.