Abstract
The relationship between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence can be approached from two different perspectives. The first, the most common one, considers the two expressions as divergent. In this case, what is at stake is the relationship (of assimilation or conflict) between two forms of intelligence. The other path, the less common one in debates around artificial intelligence, considers the distinction between natural and artificial, in relation to intelligence, much less sharp and destabilizing than it might appear. Natural intelligence, understood as one of the two tendencies of the mixture that constitute thought, is already predisposed, by its very constitution, to be transformed into artificial intelligence. What this contribution intends to address is therefore not so much the theme of the relationship between natural and artificial intelligence (and the possible substitution or assimilation of the former by the latter) but rather the theme, which underlies the former, of the nature of intelligence and its function in the environment.
