It’s not backpedaling. Both things are true. There are wildly different “intelligences”. Plants, for example. As for highly intelligent, orcas are an example.

It’s not backpedaling. Both things are true. There are wildly different “intelligences”. Plants, for example. As for highly intelligent, orcas are an example. And all this relies on some definition of intelligence, which I don’t think we even have a good one for.