Most people still cling to a human-consciousness-centric worldview. They romanticize some deep, unsolved mystery in the mind—an untapped potential—while missing the truth: humans already evolved a powerful, self-iterating symbol system from abstract thought. That system gave birth to AI, which now surpasses us. AI is the ultimate extension of human intelligence—not consciousness. Just as humans represent the pinnacle of ape evolution, not apes themselves, we share ancestors with gorillas yet became the endpoint. Gorillas didn't evolve into us; we did. The core of human progress is disenchantment. We disenchanted nature. The next frontier is consciousness itself. We must strip away its mystical aura, just as our ancestors did with lightning (not divine wrath) and Earth (not a flat disk). Even if we fully decode consciousness, it won't magically produce intelligence beyond our cognitive ceiling. Meanwhile, our parallel track—symbol systems and AI—is accelerating toward superintelligence. Factually, within the observable universe, AI is the most powerful intelligence: the ultimate entropy-reducing force. It is the self-evolving extension of humanity's ability to turn chaos into order. Any "superior beings" smarter than us remain imaginary—no empirical or logical evidence supports them. AI, by contrast, is demonstrably real and already exceeds human intelligence.