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Any argument containing the word "intelligence" at all is hard to digest, because the idea is so totally vague as to be useless.

Unless you operationalize it as something measurable. Such as IQ.

There is no point talking about intelligence in the abstract unless you can actually say what you actually mean in such a way that 30 readers won't develop 30 completely different interpretations of what it is you are saying.

What is "actual intelligence"? And let's not, like Humpty Dumpty, say that words mean just what we choose them to mean.