Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li...
by rbanffy on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:13AM
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We could use an utilitarian definition of "intelligent life" that would mean something like "able to communicate or directly interact with us". I wonder if ant colonies or fungi consider us intelligent life.
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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li...
by runarberg on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:15PM
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A relativistic definition of intelligence: I think it would be hard to do, e.g. your example would make dogs one of the most intelligent species on Earth, relative to humans, much smarter then chimpanzees. To be frank I find the whole concept of intelligence to be more problematic then its worth.
That said, if we are ever able to establish communication with a species other then our own that evolved elsewhere in the galaxy, intelligence might at that point become an outdated concept.