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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by erikbye on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:16AM (#23925261)
> However an ant colony is not considered intelligent even though it has large scale agriculture, social hierarchy and communication techniques we don’t fully understand.

Actually, ants are frequently deemed smart and intelligent. Such suppositions are common.

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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by runarberg on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:18PM (#23928959)
Indeed, and there are also people actively investigating plant intelligence.

The question that arises though, when we find more and more examples of intelligent behavior across the tree of of life, is intelligence actually that useful of a concept?

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