If we humans had developed towards efficiency, then our mind might never have developed towards abstraction. And an intelligence pill might hinder such kinds of naturally developed abstraction (beyond intelligence) as well. I guess it is generally important to experience suffering due to mental failure - in order to be pushed towards abstraction even more.,(reply>), ​@K T Not always. Even mostly not, I suppose. E.g. seemingly stupid traits like religion might have sparked the mental superiority of mankind (I am not religious). <br><br>Or e.g. writing a computer program which performs better than one ever could - this might firstly seem to be a sign of intelligence, but is rather a sign of suffering unter limited mental capabilities, as often encountered in programming (e.g. refer Dijkstras "The Humble Programmer"). <br><br>I guess the problem with intelligence here is its vague definition, what it really means. Here in this video, we were informed that intelligence has to do something with speed and performance. However, we also know that computers are too far away from qualia esp. due to their syntactical outperformance.<br><br>In contrary, Lex might not be fast enough to finish exams (as mentioned in this video) - now he became such a major contributor. <br><br>So, with "beyond intelligence" I mean "beyond measurability"... beyond comparing complex entities via flat numbers in an inhumanely inappropriate way.<br><br>"inhumanely inappropriate" wasn't meant to defend social justice. Rather in the direction that there is no greater good of "intelligence" that we should maximize as a collective (against individuals and their productive weaknesses).,(reply>), Abstraction is simply a byproduct of high intelligence. Btw what precisely do you mean by "abstraction beyond intelligence"?