[dahwolf]

We vastly overestimate the intelligence of us and underestimate the intelligence of any other living creature.

Or rather, humanity acts as a highly intelligent collective but individual humans are only moderately intelligent in comparison.

As a thought experiment: put an average urban person on an uninhabited island. No tech. The person would have absolutely no idea how to recreate any of our technology. Nor would they know how to hunt, do agriculture, do mining, do anything.

We have no idea how anything works and outsourced even basic survival skills. The magic of humanity is that actually smart people are able to store and communicate knowledge to build ever more advanced tech, which through sophisticated supply chains and management systems is widely distributed to all other people whom don't require to know how anything works.