>The time will come when diligent research over long periods

>>9131515
>Do you think we are an intelligent species?
Yes and the evidence is that I think so.
>Or are we nothing in comparison to the potential for organic life such as ourselves
This is a hard question to answer because we haven't met a more intelligent life form than ourselves and we know too little about our brain to ascertain how much more powerful such an organ can be. Some aspects of nature may seem beyond human comprehension, but that may be because we haven’t yet found a clever way to abstract them. Maybe our brain is adequate for the task, but we know too little to make sense of everything.

>>9131515
>Do you think we are an intelligent species?
We are the most intelligent life that we know can exist. We are the smartest general intelligence currently alive, at the very least on Dirt.

>Or are we nothing in comparison to the potential for organic life such as ourselves, and we're just trapped in an evolutionary local maximum with respect to intelligence?
We are extremely far form the smartest possible intelligence. I'm not sure what the biological limit to intelligence is, as it's a pretty delicate system, but we can surely invent a AGI that is smarter than us.

As far as whether we will evolve to be more intelligent, probably not. There are no evolutionary pressures for intelligence, and we like to jerk ourselves off for helping the less fortunate, which means that not only do we not encourage smart people to live, we try to keep the dumb people around, too.