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<p>100 years ago, the editors of the <italic>Journal of Educational Psychology</italic> 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.</p>
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100 years ago, the editors of the Journal of Educational Psychology 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.

Fighting human hubris: Intelligence in nonhuman animals and artefacts

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100 years ago, the editors of the Journal of Educational Psychology conducted one of the most famous studies of experts’ conceptions of human intelligence....

Fighting human hubris: Intelligence in nonhuman animals and artefacts

Published Online: May 27, 2023

Page range: 1 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0001

Keywords
Intelligence, multiple intelligences, octopi, machine learning, pluralism

© 2023 Christian Hugo Hoffmann, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fighting human hubris: Intelligence in nonhuman animals and artefacts

Published Online: May 27, 2023

Page range: 1 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0001

KeywordsIntelligence, multiple intelligences, octopi, machine learning, pluralism

© 2023 Christian Hugo Hoffmann, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Intelligence, multiple intelligences, octopi, machine learning, pluralism