It seems that intelligence, natural or artificial, is an emergent property of collective communication. Human consciousness itself may be an epiphenomenon of extraordinary processing power. Although experts prefer to avoid simplistic definitions of intelligence, it seems clear that all intelligence involves the rational manipulation of symbolic information.
Somehow this came about during the discussion of human superiority because we (at least most of us) are intelligent because we are self-aware as a result of our complex language skills.
Since our level of self-awareness can only be measured in words (usually) understandable only to us (humans), we are deaf to the expressions of self-awareness of other species and therefore any conclusion that they aren't intelligent strictly based on that argument is invalid.
There are more thoughts/concepts/notions on this floating in my brain that I can't quite put to words just yet. So, should my intelligence be measured on my awareness of them, or my ability to express them in words understandable by (most) others?
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