Affiliation:
1. 1 Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( KIT , Germany )
Abstract
Abstract100 years ago, the editors of theJournal of Educational Psychologyconducted 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.
Subject
Health Policy,Philosophy,Education
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