This is a pretty valuable insight. Even without some kind of innovation to intelligence itself, simply taking the human cognitive process and mapping it onto a

This is a pretty valuable insight. Even without some kind of innovation to intelligence itself, simply taking the human cognitive process and mapping it onto a strata with several factors more bandwidth (an expectation that isn't unrealistic, given the current implementation is low-speed potential flows and chemical squirting) could significantly push science forward. This one is an easy bet, since we're already doing this; modern researchers (even the professionals ;) ) use Google and more specialized search tools, which are little more than machines that can read, digest, and correlate symbols at speeds much, _much_ faster than a human (though in a far more narrowly-scoped domain than a human).