An interesting article, Aditya, but it seems to fall into the hole that nearly everyone falls into when the topic of intelligence, what it means to be human, etc. is discussed. The problem is we don’t know what we mean by the word intelligence. Most people, by any reasonable definition, lack the quality. Furthermore we don’t really know what we mean by the word human.

Add to this the fact many people still have zero grasp of how the brain fabricates our illusion of consciousness and continuity, and you get inevitable confusion. The core problem of philosophy is that it’s abstracted from empirical data. Hence people gleefully disappear down intellectual rat-holes and rarely re-emerge. Fortunately science enables us to learn progressively more about real-world phenomenon, and from this we discover how fallible human cognition is, how fragmentary the “personality” really is, how faulty our recollections are, and in short how limited our human minds truly are.

Sadly philosophy largely fails to take this all into account and so the castles-in-the-air musings proliferate, intellectually lightweight TV shows and movies are churned out to repeat endlessly the same old misleading tropes, and no one is any the wiser.