# Nonhuman Intelligence **Domain:** Intelligence / Animal Cognition / Extraterrestrial Life / Machine Intelligence **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[SETI Institute]], [[Jane Goodall Institute]], [[Artificial Intelligence]], [[Rights]] --- ## Definition **Nonhuman intelligence** includes forms of cognition and adaptive agency not instantiated by a living human being, including animal cognition, possible extraterrestrial intelligence and machine intelligence. ## Rights Context The category is deliberately plural. Different beings may warrant different protections because of sentience, agency, social relation or vulnerability; nonhuman status cannot by itself establish either personhood or disposability. ## Backlinks [[SETI Institute]] · [[Jane Goodall Institute]] · [[Rights]]