Funny how chemistry works and people try to apply meaning to it. Not to say it's wrong, philosophy is a great way to understand how things work, and how your mind works. However molecules don't think, they follow rules and quantum rules behave quite uh... "different" to how things work at the macroscopic level. Here is probably the most amazing explanation of the golden ratio, the Fibonacci sequence and why it's everywhere in nature without meaning to be:
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I'm not sure doubling the human chromosome number would have the effect described. It doesn't mean there is more information or that we somehow transform into more intelligent beings. I can't remember the link for it but I watched a video about early humans, at one point there was two different species of human-like "creatures" on Earth, we obviously survived, it's believed we didn't kill the other species though, rather we literally fucked them out of existence (apparently modern human genes are about 1-2% from this now extinct hominid). Well the point is apparently this other species was quite intelligent, more intelligent than us, had a better sense of sound and that also probably meant they had a better ability to use vocal communication. We apparently were more aggressive and horny.
Greater understanding does give a better ability to understand more, but there are physical limits based on the structure of the mind. Now we use technology to do the number crunching while people interpret and results. Also there are things that most people will never understand. There are also things we can never know since it is fundamentally impossible to know them (look up Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle). We may one day be travelling the stars and using weapons that can destroy worlds, but it would be due to knowing how to use the technology.
Being a better person though, that is difficult. We are aggressive and horny by nature after all. So many religions attempt to guide people to being better but so many people follow the dogma without following or understanding the original message. This is why I like Buddhism.