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What is Intellegence?

I pondered this question all of my life.
At first it seems obvious, ?I think, right?
But, what am I?

          Life is life... (?)

          Life came from the universe..stuff(?)

          I am a thinking person!

The deffinition of intellegence is ~

    1. Problem solving.

A virus is therefore, intellegent when it adapts to
Penicillan.  But, does a virus have consciousness?

Okay-okay-kay!

      So, I was a temporary casual mailman
      and this dog was lose in a frontyard..
      But, I couldn't hold the mail, because I
      was just a casual mailman.. So, I tried to
      put the mail in mailbox at the chain link
      fence and the dog bit me. So, I maced the
      dog.. and he jumped the fence.

      I locked myself in my car and drove to the
      next block to finish my rout. The dog followed me!
      I had to call the police. The owner made a complaint
      against me after I made my complaint against his dog.
      The owner said there was a sign clearly posted ~

                "BEWARE OF THE DOG."

      But. The mailbox was inside the chain link fence..
      He had to move his mailbox outside the fence.

Reflections: Where is the intellegence in leaving a
                    Rotweiler unleashed and unattended in
                    a frontyard?
                    The Rotweiler was intellengent enough
                    to follow me in my car and remain at the
                    car, waiting to finish me off.

It sounds silly, but sometimes animals are more intellegent
then their owners and the common cold has more skill in adapting
than many humans.

          Is intellegence only human?
                          ...
Just curious...