intelligence on whose terms?
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.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
intelligence is relational: it matters how and where you do it, what form your body gives it, and with whom it connects.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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
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Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
Will Douglas Heaven • AI is learning how to create itself
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
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