Re birds, fish, etc -- That's an interesting approach, discarding generality / repurposeability as a requirement. On the other hand, requiring those would mea

Re birds, fish, etc -- That's an interesting approach, discarding generality / repurposeability as a requirement. On the other hand, requiring those would mean that being very very good at, say math and only math, would maybe not actually count as intelligence. Perhaps there's two related things? Artifacts of fixed / embodied intelligence, like bird's wings and traffic lights. And whatever process produced those artifacts. Saying that intelligence is solving problems or making problems go away, also implies that there's no such thing as disembodied isolated intelligence. Because being isolated and disembodied means there are no problems to work on. So you can have a general algorithm (say, fitness-biased random search), that only becomes intelligent when put in the right environment (given a fitness function that matches to a problem).