Intelligent life does not mean more intelligent than
humans but having intelligence in
general.
Intelligence has been defined in many ways and
there are many ways that it is exhibited in, which often makes a single test meant to
measure intelligence irrelevant.
One of the general
characteristics of intelligence is the ability to learn. An intelligent creature has the
ability to learn while it tries to achieve its objectives and make changes in its
actions to be able to accomplish it in a better way. For example, if an animal that is
hurt while trying to reach its objective of obtaining food once and the next time does
not perform the same steps but chooses an alternate way has
intelligence.
The objectives for different intelligent
organisms differ and they evolve as the intelligent creatures evolve. They could vary
from just a basic objective of obtaining food and staying alive to more advanced
objectives like those that humans have.
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