Various people have been speculating on what problems the human mind was designed to solve since the dawn of human self-awareness. We haven&#x27;t even got anything close to consensus on fundamental stuff like the extent and direction of causal relationships between language structure and the way a mind operates.<p>Things have got a <i>bit</i> better with fancy math and brain scanners to actually test hypotheses about how these psychological theories correspond to brain function, but we&#x27;re a long way even from detailed answers to most relatively simple and defined experimental questions like &quot;what&#x27;s the difference between the way person X&#x27;s mind and person Y&#x27;s mind approach narrowly-defined problem A&quot;<p>We&#x27;re probably not even close to knowing how many open problems we have to solve, never mind actually solving them.