[ExI] far future

[Ben]

It occurs to me that minds that were evolved to cope with the African 
Savannah on approximately the metre scale, are woefully inequipped for 
understanding how the universe works.  The reason that the double-slit 
experiment, and all the other manifestations of quantum theory (and many 
other things) are mind-blowing to us is probably that our minds never 
needed to understand those things during our evolutionary development.  
That kind of understanding will probably require a different mental 
architecture than the one we have.  It's likely that anyone capable of 
understanding how the universe works can't be 'human' in any 
currently-accepted sense.

Ben Zaiboc