In the science fiction novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffields, humanity will evolve into composites where large numbers of people are linked together for problem solving purposes.
In the Neal Stephenson book "The Diamond Age" he uses the same concept. BTW, it's an awesome read and one of my faves.
I just got done reading an article on Slate that may have a counter to your proposal. Computers. We are already seeing computers find solutions to problems that we just don't understand, but are still true.
Will computers eventually make scientific discoveries we can’t comprehend?
We may already have the parallel processing necessary.
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