Our intelligence level, cognitive speed, set of biases and so on is not predetermined, but an artifact of our evolutionary history.
In particular, there’s no physical law that puts a cap on intelligence at the level of human beings.
A good way to think of this is by looking what happens when the natural world tries to maximize for speed.
If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting), you might think it was impossible for anything to go faster.
But of course we know that there are all kinds of configurations of matter, like a motorcycle, that are faster than a cheetah and even look a little bit cooler.
But there’s no direct evolutionary pathway to the motorcycle. Evolution had to first make human beings, who then build all kinds of useful stuff.