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by robertlagrant 1181 days ago
This seems a different topic. It doesn't seem very difficult to imagine why creating civilisations is evidence of intelligence. Even within our species, we'd call subsisting tribes 5000 years ago "primitive". This is just applying that same reasoning to other species.
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Are ants intelligent?

I think it is an important distinction to make in every similar discussion - certain animals just have some behavior “hard-coded”. Humans realized the need and the how of building cities/homes.