intelligence on whose terms?

Rethinking what intelligence might be also allows us to rethink the modes and mechanisms which might produce it, and thus to come up with new ways of being intelligent.

intelligence is relational: it matters how and where you do it, what form your body gives it, and with whom it connects.

if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.

When we speak about advanced artificial intelligence, or ‘general’ artificial intelligence, this is what we mean. An intelligence which operates at the same level, and in much the same manner, as human intelligence.

there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity.

To define intelligence simply as what humans do is the narrowest way we could possibly think about it – and it is ultimately to narrow ourselves, and lessen its possible meaning. Rather, by expanding our definition of intelligence, and the chorus of minds which manifest it, we might allow our own intelligence to flower into new forms and new emerge

Intelligence is one among many ways of being in the world: it is an interface to it; it makes the world manifest.