i wonder if i can teach our cat to open cans or at least packets of cat food
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my working theory is that intelligence is way more common in animals than what common knowledge says but only the species that have language can keep it in active use for a lifetime. the rest just kind of figure out how to survive and then get stuck in a rut
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I'm very conflicted about this theory. On the one hand my gut feeling tells me that this is true for most reasonable definitions of "intelligence". On the other hand I don't know of even a single definition of "intelligence" that I would call "reasonable" (in non-AI setting).
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by "intelligence" here i mean "rudimentary theory of mind and ability to plan ahead in short term"
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So "rudimentary theory of mind" would be for example the cat hiding things from you, recognizing when you have found the hidden thing, and as a consequence moving it to a new hiding spot? I think your working theory is pretty uncontroversial then.
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Furthermore, the definitions that I know that come close are almost impossible to apply without deep insights into internal thought processes, which is okay for philosophy but renders them pretty useless for experiments.
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