Defining Intelligence
Billions spent
Searching for intelligence
In outer space.
Here it is,
Right in front of our face.
In whale
And chimp
Gorilla
And fly
We find
The rules
Of intelligence
Apply
In our arrogance
We pretend
They are less
Than they are.
Reluctant
To accept
Anything
Is on a par.
Intelligence is as common as prostitution.
A product of all evolution.
Opher 4.11.2022
We define intelligence by our own rules. In subjects that can be taught in schools. Yet the fly easily evades the hand and any whale is as brainy as a man.
Intelligence has many forms. Who doubts the wisdom of a tree? Who would judge it against you or me?
Who can say with honesty that another lifeform doesn’t think or be?
We try to place ourselves apart, ascribe us souls and eternal life. Asserting that we are superior with god-given attributes.
Yet we all crawled out of that same primordial soup. Souls and afterlives are merely inventions that we bandy about to make ourselves feel special.
We’re all made of the same cells.
We are not special.