Maybe start connecting the structures in our brains with the structures in our math. The limited representational capacity of meat-based brains is probably constraining what can be understood. Even math may be too constrained to go beyond current level of detail. I imagine an AI doing its own experiments with the universe will have unbounded understanding, but i doubt we d be able to understand her when she tries to…
I'm surprised humans have gotten this far in understanding the rules of the universe and making accurate predictions. There's no evolutionary reason why we would have: our brains only hold like 7 ~ 11 things in working memory, we're almost always thinking about either food, entertainment, sleep, or sex, we can't conceptualize infinities, we're stuck living in linear time at 1 second per second, our long term memory i…
It's a subject of professional interest to me for decades, what impresses me is how much isn't known about how our built-in "computer" actually works. Above all neurons are extraordinarily intricate structures, and beyond that the contributions of non-neurons in the brain appear to be considerable. Given that the brain contains at least 100's of millions of participating neurons organized in a complex hierarchical network, no wonder it's still not possible to adequately account for many relatively simple phenomena let alone the emergence of towering genius.
Indeed our wetware is collectively both more capable (and more limited) than we generally appreciate. Definitely we can't predict where genius will arise, it always seems to surprise when it happens. To say it's a miracle may be naive, but perhaps that just expresses wonder and gratitude for a rare, random and highly fortuitous event.