[aithrowawaycomm]

This seems like a misreading - there's also no real path to P-NP or to disentangling the true chemical origins of life. OP didn't say it was impossible. The problem is we don't know very much about intelligence in animals generally, and even less about intelligence in humans. In particular, we know far less about intelligence than we do computational complexity or early forms of life.

[CooCooCaCha]

Those seem like silly analogies. There are billions of brains on the planet, humans can grow them inside themselves (pregnancy). Don’t get me wrong, it’s a hard problem, they just seem like different classes of problems.

I could see P=NP being impossible to prove but I find it hard to believe intelligence is impossible to figure out. Heck if you said it’d take us 100 years I would still think that’s a bit much.

[RandomLensman]

We have not even figured out single cell organisms, let alone slightly more complex organisms - why would intelligence be such an easy target?

[CooCooCaCha]

I didn’t say easy.

[RandomLensman]

Yes, sorry, but it still could be impossibly hard for a long time. A lot of things happen in nature all the time we cannot do and have no (practical) path to doing them.

[aithrowawaycomm]

I think it'll take much longer than 100 years. The "limiting factor" here is cognitive science experiments on smart animals like rats and pigeons, and less smart animals like spiders and lampreys, all of which will help us understand what intelligence truly is. These experiments take time and resources.

[threeseed]

> Don’t get me wrong, it’s a hard problem, they just seem like different classes of problems

Time travel. Teleportation through quantum entanglement. Intergalactic travel through wormholes.

And don't get me wrong they are hard. But just another class of problems. Right ?

[CooCooCaCha]

Yes absolutely. I have a (supposedly) working brain in my head right now. But so far there are no working examples of the things you listed.