Perhaps one might imagine a creature that essentially cultivates multiple personalities disorder for each task they perform, where the task at hand is (more or less) their utility function, unless something like survival instict kicked in an override?
How about:
Enhancing the brain with hardware for that memory/intelligence boost.
Superior intuition for probability
Different/worse optical illusions/blind spots from different optical nerve wiring
Superior 3D spatial visualization for ocean dwellers
Creatures that get stuck in a correlation/causation confusion and manage to continue along mostly successfully
Types of synaesthesia far more elaborate than in Humans
A conflict between intelligence and instinct where instinct is in total control but intelligence knows it’s doing the wrong thing
Minds partitioned more finely than the human left/right hemisphere split, with more independence between them
Species that specialize their intelligence like insects becoming workers/warriors/queens/drones etc. but for intelligence
Lots of fun possibilities in this area.
Humans do this (and increasingly so). e.g. we have physicists, mathematicians, economists, psychologists etc.
Perhaps one might imagine a creature that essentially cultivates multiple personalities disorder for each task they perform, where the task at hand is (more or less) their utility function, unless something like survival instict kicked in an override?
Imagine a creature that didn’t do that!