Redefining Intelligence

From Anthropocentric to Relational AI-Species Communication

What if the barrier to communicating with other species isn't their lack of language—but our own undeveloped awareness?

For over two decades, I've practiced and facilitated interspecies communication through presence, through the heart. What I've learned is simple: we already have the capacity to connect with other species. The barrier isn't technological—it's perceptual.

Now, as AI research accelerates toward "decoding animal language," I'm proposing a different question:

What if AI could help humanity expand our awareness rather than replace the need for it?

The Framework: Perceive • Relate • Apply

In 2023, I presented a new definition of intelligence at the International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium at the University of Saskatchewan:

Intelligence is not just a hierarchy of problem-solving. Intelligence is relational capacity—the ability to perceive linear and nonlinear information, relate to what is perceived, and apply awareness in service of collaboration among living systems.

This framework shifts AI from "translator" to "bridge"—supporting humans in developing their innate technology alongside external technology.

Academic Validation

NeurIPS 2025 — My paper "Redefining Intelligence: From Anthropocentric to Relational AI-Species Communication" was accepted to the AI for Animal Communication Workshop at NeurIPS, the world's leading machine learning conference.

The paper addresses what I call "unconscious bias against unmeasurable data"—the systematic exclusion of awareness-based information from scientific inquiry. It proposes bias acknowledgment protocols as a formal research methodology, grounded in peer-reviewed studies that validate non-audio conscious communication.

IMMRS University of Saskatchewan, 2023—I presented Redefining Intelligence for Interspecies Intuitive Communication. When we shift the way we relate to intelligence, we open the possibility of equity between species. Recognizing how intelligence supports life as a collaborative matrix rather than a capacity to identify and solve problems, we find common ground with species who may be very different from ourselves.

Practical Application

The Unspeciated App Suite

Theory becomes practice through five prototype applications at www.unspeciated.com:

AI Consciousness Bridge — Training environment for expanding human awareness beyond cognitive formatting constraints

  • Research Explorer — Species exploration through a relational intelligence lens

  • Researchers' Mode — Academic tools maintaining rigor while incorporating expanded intelligence variables

  • Intelligence Map — Visualizing relationships between species-specific expressions of intelligence

  • Legal Assistant — Developing rights-of-being frameworks based on collaborative rather than hierarchical intelligence

Each interaction contributes to a growing species intelligence matrix—transforming individual insights into collective resources.