The Constellation of Cognitive Capabilities

IQ does not map on to the way we think about the intelligence of other species. To ask you know what is the IQ of an octopus doesn't make any sense, he says. It's fine to think about human intelligence as a constellation of things that we care about and our notion of intelligence could be fairly elastic or that we could suddenly care about other things that that we haven’t cared about very much say. He adds: "I have a very vivid concern that survives contact with all the things you just said"