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Intelligence is not well defined enough for a succinct distinguishment. At least, not colloquially.

But also we're in a context where acknowledging the intelligence of other life forms is pretty radical so distinguishing them as 'lesser' than human would be precisely opposite of the point. The baseline world view is that human intelligence is magically different than other animal intelligences.




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