[godelski]

Well it is good to know I'm not alone. These are strange times indeed. I often think one of the great filters of civilizations is overcoming a biological mechanism that designs brains to think simple (cheap compute/complexity is often unnecessary for survival objectives) and then advancing into a level of civilization where a significant amount of the problems the civilization require beyond first and second order approximations. (it happens when most challenges are solved to first and second order approximations) Unless one is able to rewire their consciousness I don't see how this wouldn't be a issue for any species but maybe I'm thinking too narrow or from too much of a bias.