intelligence on whose terms?

from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

intelligence is not one-dimensional,

At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.

First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme

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.