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Why the experts can’t agree on what intelligence is

Philosophy Bites

Aug 16, 2026
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Part 1 of a 5-part follow-up series. The first series asked what intelligence is; this one asks whether there’s more than one kind.

By William Crooks

In our last series we worked out an answer to the question “what is intelligence?” — a creature’s ability to understand things, measured by how complex those things are, relative to how quickly it comes to u…

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