# Diverse Intelligence **Concept class:** Comparative cognition and agency framework ## Definition **Diverse intelligence** treats intelligence as a family of capacities distributed across different bodies, scales, substrates, and collective organizations rather than as a property exhausted by adult human cognition. The category can include animal cognition, plant signaling and adaptation, collective behavior, synthetic agents, and possible planetary or extraterrestrial intelligence, while preserving different evidentiary standards for each. ## Relationships - **ICE routes:** [[wiki/Plant Intelligence|Plant Intelligence]], [[wiki/Planetary Intelligence|Planetary Intelligence]], [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], and [[wiki/Extraterrestrial Intelligence|Extraterrestrial Intelligence]]. - **participant route:** [[wiki/Monica Gagliano|Monica Gagliano]] brought plant cognition into the ICE Fellows network. - **evidence boundary:** behavioral similarity does not by itself establish common mechanism, consciousness, or agency. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE at Dartmouth — Fellows Program](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/fellows-program) - [ICE at Dartmouth — videos and themes](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)