On Intelligent life forms
Moved to: https://philosophy.mihvoi.org/2017/05/on-intelligent-life-forms.html I define intelligence as the capacity of one entity to create complex internal representations that can be used to predict about it's environment the likely outcome from a particular configuration or action, based on the regularities of the environment. Entity can be organic life form or (potentially) a natural or artificial inorganic intelligence. The "can be used" instead of "uses" also covers a case of "abstract only" entity that constructs purely theoretical abstract model (think mathematics) and does not use it for any adaptation purposes.