intelligence on whose terms?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.