I listened to this guy talk and he sounded extremely intelligent but he said they were not his ideas and he merely read the 36 books listed here
https://civilizationemerging.com/resources/

So is this simulated intelligence?
What if everyone in the world had read these 36 books? All the knowledge should be about the same.
What is real intelligence? Creating a new idea from scratch? All new ideas come from previous ideas according to the book The Runaway Species. What makes a certain configuration of neurons more intelligent than another configuration?