The end of the second intermediary phase before any evolving intelligence, whenever and wherever in the universe, reaches maturity and full deployment.
(Extended definition of "Point Omega")
In order to understand the evolution of intelligence, we need to consider a couple of unfamiliar notions. These notions are indispensable for a clear understanding of what intelligence is all about, what is its usefulness and evolutionary rationale, and what are the conditions under which intelligence can reach higher levels.
As the evolutionary baseline in the evolution of intelligence, let's consider the ordinary state of modest intelligence which is a customary option for all evolving phyla and which is limited by ordinary evolutionary forces, protecting the integrity of the proximate behavioural organization. In figure 1 this period in evolution is the time between (B) and (C).
Escaping from that general upper boundary to intelligence is only possible after the development of a specific blindness, an incapacity to relate to one's own behaviour in an intelligent way. , the first, and longest, intermediary phase is the blindness phase, in which intelligence is becoming genetically blocked regarding the behaviour of oneself. This then removes the evolutionary limiting force on intelligence, freeing the way for an increase of intelligent power.
The second intermediary phase is when innate behavioural tendencies are overruled by power structures at the meme level, which induce massive states of fear and neuroses in the intelligent carriers of those memes, in "us".
The end of this second intermediary phase is when intelligence, with the support of technical developments, finally breaks through that genetically facilitated self-blindness and finally understands its own nature and structure, including its own specific blindnesses. Collective slavery, based on mass neuroses and fears as characteristic for the second intermediary phase, then comes to an end, as well as periodic mass destruction and genocide, that served the genetic evolution until that moment in time.
