Forms of intelligence? We need them all! – Idees

Rational intelligence – the exclusively human capacity of thinking, speculating, knowing – has been, since the start of the Modern Era, the keystone of our place in the world: "More than nature, different from machines". While we have intelligence, animals only have instincts and machines are simply mechanical. But today, these principles are being questioned. For one thing, the climatic and social emergency obliges us to put the superiority of rational intelligence on stand-by, at least as regards conservation and continuation of life. For another thing, artificial intelligence is better than human beings at resolving certain "rational" problems, leading us to wonder whether this is the relevant difference.