"consciousness" and "intelligence" are everywhere, just in very alien forms.
intelligence with very different requirements on it. amazing how the search space has been covered by organisms with responses sometime neural, sometimes genetic control of phenotype
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Intelligence I am thinking as ability to come up with novel and rapid ways of achieving complex goals. Corvids and octupuses can do amazing stuff, I am wondering if ant colonies and mycelial networks could rise to that level.
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Wouldn't even qualify intelligence and consciousness in that setting, they just are. (I think at least avaians have some homologous neural for emotional capacity too.) The truly alien is collective intelligence, like human or ant society, and whether there is awareness there too
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