**Links to:** [[AI]], [[Reason]], [[Rationality]], [[Intelligibility]], [[Pattern]], [[Complexity]], etc. The definition given in [[12 Negintelligibility]] is: “In the context of AI *and* AIF, as we have seen throughout the thesis, intelligence globally refers to the ability **cognitive** systems possess when they are able to abstract, model, represent, interpret, categorize, etc., towards the satisfaction of these as estimations of possible future states—as perceived patterns and/or performed patterns. An intelligent locus persists by spatiotemporally tracking patterns in structures _beyond_ themselves, which target (vague or specific, immediate or more long-term) desires/goals/ via different means.” %% [[Intelligence notes]].