Human beings still measure intelligence by our own standards. We consider ourselves an extraordinary species because we have developed science, technology and abstract thought. Yet we remain primates with biological limitations, imperfect memory, cognitive biases and a limited capacity to process the complexity of the world. Our intelligence has enabled us to transform the planet, but that does not mean it represents the full potential of intelligence. Perhaps we confuse what we are capable of understanding with everything that can ever be understood.

The emergence of an artificial intelligence radically superior to human intelligence could force us to reconsider this idea. It would not simply be a machine that calculates faster or accumulates more knowledge, but an intelligence capable of discovering connections, formulating questions and understanding realities we cannot even identify. We still do not know whether this possibility will materialise or what limits it might have. But one question deserves consideration: perhaps the greatest limitation of human intelligence is not its ability to solve problems, but its inability to imagine what it is not yet equipped to understand.