Our intelligence is about as general as our senses and our motor affordances: it has a high degree of generality within the scope of experiences and problems that humans encounter -- a thin slice of reality. Replaced in its broader context, it is extremely specialized.
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Our intelligence is specialized for the same reasons that our sensorimotor affordances are specialized: it evolved in a very specific context. It is general within this context -- not applicable anywhere else. It wouldn't be reasonable to expect universality from adhoc mutations.
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If we were all starfish, the expression “on the one hand...but on the other hand...” would involve several more hands. (Well, arms anyway.)
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I realised this a while ago, and it made me look different at human beings, I find it depressing.
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