Fighting human hubris: Intelligence in nonhuman animals and artefacts

100 years ago, the editors of the conducted one of the most famous studies of experts’ conceptions of human intelligence. This was reason enough to prompt the question where we stand today with making sense of “intelligence”. In this paper, we argue that we should overcome our anthropocentrism and a...

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Published inEthics & bioethics (in Central Europe) Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Main Author Hoffmann, Christian Hugo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sciendo 01.06.2023
Subjects
Intelligence
machine learning
multiple intelligences
octopi
pluralism
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Summary:100 years ago, the editors of the conducted one of the most famous studies of experts’ conceptions of human intelligence. This was reason enough to prompt the question where we stand today with making sense of “intelligence”. In this paper, we argue that we should overcome our anthropocentrism and appreciate the wonders of intelligence in nonhuman and nonbiological animals instead. For that reason, we study two cases of octopus intelligence and intelligence in machine learning systems to embrace the notion of intelligence as a non-unitary faculty with pluralistic forms. Furthermore, we derive lessons for advancing our human self-understanding.
ISSN:2453-7829
2453-7829
DOI:10.2478/ebce-2023-0001