[ExI] LLM are connecting all terrestrial intelligence

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 21/05/2026 18:22, Jason Resch wrote:
> > In my analysis of the consciousness of other species:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEmrtMUtWQ4JsAzskDZfTJ1xtHG1jq1I/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > I outline 10 classes of conscious minds, ranked more or less
> progressively in terms of increasing sophistication:
> > 1. Reactive: can respond to stimuli
> > 2. Stateful: keeps distinct internal states
> > 3. Adaptive: can store memories and learn
> > 4. Attentive: maintains a model of the environment
> > 5. Reflective: models the self within the environment
> > 6. Empathic: models others as entities with their own minds
> > 7. Contemplative: thinks about abstract objects and the future
> > 8. Introspective: can have second-order thoughts about thoughts
> > 9. Metacognitive: has third-order thoughts about nature of thought
> > 10. Superfluid: can arbitrarily reorganize itself to experience any
> qualia
> >
> > Use of language, depending on the level of language sophistication, can
> point to different levels of minds on this scale. For example, displacement
> is the ability to think and talk about things that are not physically
> present. Using displacement in speech indicates a degree of abstract
> reasoning capacity, which is characteristic of "level 7" minds.
>
>
> So bees have 'level7' minds???
>

Given that a bee's ability to communicate specific locations is fairly
rigid and not extendable to communicating about arbitrary objects, I
wouldn't consider bee language as strong evidence of abstract thinking.

That said, the minds of bees (and wasps) are among the most advanced of all
insects. Bees remember visual landmarks for navigation, engage in play, and
seek out plants containing nicotine or caffeine to self-medicate when sick.
Wasps can recognize and distinguish human faces and remember them for at
least a week. They even watch the outcomes of other wasps' fights to
logically infer their own potential to win a dominance fight based on their
past fight records.

I think animals are much more intelligent than we often give them credit
for. Even alligators have been observed to be "tool users"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03949370.2013.858276

Jason
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