Dennett was talking about natural intelligence. I think you're just underestimating the potential of a sufficiently big bag of tricks. sharing knowledge isn't

Dennett was talking about natural intelligence. I think you're just underestimating the potential of a sufficiently big bag of tricks. sharing knowledge isn't a human thing - chimps learn from each other. bees teach each other the direction and distance to a new source of food. we just happen to push the envelope a lot further and managed to kickstart runaway mimetic evolution.