intelligence on whose terms?

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

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.

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 one-dimensional,

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