Intelligence is apparently the ability to accomplish complex goals, but the complexity of a goal, and even the very goal itself, involves a certain order of mental judgment that is generally considered to be in the realm of intelligence. In fact, the difficulty is so great that in another view, the term is best left undefined. In other words, when it comes to intelligence, we literally do not know what we are talking about. And to confound the issue further: “The word intelligence seems to take on different meanings in different contexts, and confusion is inevitable when those different meanings are implied within the same context. Will we have true artificial intelligence in 20 years? Well, the answer to that depends on … what we mean when we say intelligent.” All of this would not matter so much but for the fact that intelligence is an officially recognized and quantified term, and evaluative assessments are routinely hung on its peg. Therefore, and against the portentousness of unrequited impressions, I feel pressed upon to take recourse to opening our discussion with a preliminary list of queries, by way of an attempt to get a foothold on the slippery slope of this abstruse notion together with its pervasiveness.