Comment Re:Brains are a lot more efficient (Score 1) 101
"Lots" and "one that is widely accepted" are not the same thing at all,
Which is why I specifically said "There are widely accepted ones too."
There's no point in discussing intelligence without first nailing down which definition the interlocutors are using.
Absolutely.
There is value in recognizing the problem, not dismissing it. There are lots of defnitions, many of which are fuzzy, because people who want to argue that humans (or specific groups of humans) are "intelligent" while others are not generally have to define intelligence in a very ad hoc way to support their argument. People who are interested in studying the subject generally have reasonable definitions. The former don't like the latter's definitions because they fail to provide the desired absolute threshold they desire.