Neither do they. Honestly, when people say things like that I don’t think most are even trying to have any kind of definition in mind other than “What humans do.”
A few years ago I had a very smart, thoughtful coworker who was genuinely surprised at many of the behaviors I described seeing in dogs. She’d never met a particularly smart dog and hadn’t considered that dogs could be smart. She very quickly and easily adjusted her views to include this as a reasonable thing that made sense. In my experience, most people… don’t work that way.
>I no longer know what people mean by intelligent
Neither do they. Honestly, when people say things like that I don’t think most are even trying to have any kind of definition in mind other than “What humans do.”
A few years ago I had a very smart, thoughtful coworker who was genuinely surprised at many of the behaviors I described seeing in dogs. She’d never met a particularly smart dog and hadn’t considered that dogs could be smart. She very quickly and easily adjusted her views to include this as a reasonable thing that made sense. In my experience, most people… don’t work that way.