To SETI, intelligence is probably the ability to do interstellar communication.

To me, intelligence is many of the things already posted in this thread, and can be observed in not only humans.

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"I'm as accurate as any psychic. And I'm a cartoon!" -- Squidward

"Arrrgh, the laws of physics be a harsh mistress!" -- Bender

What special glasses for dyslexia? I've never heard of that.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Gillian: Look here: http://dyslexiacentre.talkware.co.uk.../4/994586.html

This is one example of it. I honestly don't know what kind of dyslexia he has, nor do I know what the glasses he uses are like, I'm just pointing out special glasses to help dyslexics do exist.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

Well, you learn something new every day, don't you?

My younger sister is so severely dyslexic that she got her textbooks on audio from the Braille Institute. My boyfriend's not that bad, but he does primarily listen to books instead of reading them. (The unabridged audio book is your friend, but way too expensive.) Apparently, my dad was dyslexic, and so's my Uncle Sean on the other side of the family. My ren faire boss is dyslexic. And yet, somehow, I'd never heard of that. How does that work? (And why am I making more typing errors than usual in this post?)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

My friend has a lot of contacts. Maybe that's a factor.

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov