[kictainiSot]

The self-awareness unique to and for humans, as seen here on earth and observed no where else to this day, is in the obeserver attributes of human minds. We can observe and will the configerations of resources the mind employs and has previously employed and may employ [potentials].

Don't entirely agree with the definition of intelligence I gave before, though it is the accepted generalization. It loads too much into "goals", really shifting the mental gymnastics into that. There's left a hoodoo in how we arrive at the goals.

Presumably "goals" is subject to a range of temporal and even chronological developmental expectations imposed by culture. Psychometrics wouldn't abandon this and is unlikely to resolve species-wide stupidities.

The 'magic' probably is in the observing of internal mental goings on, being able to communicate it, and will it and unfluence others. This social aspect of mental life is where the unique potentials spring from.

May seem odd but believe it comes from dehabituation in a sense. For most creatures desire and memory shape behaviour. Humans though can somwhat reverse this and reconstruct, or even conceptually deconstruct and work backward, which allows observation of cognitive-emotional workings. We can consider mental goings on as mechanisms.

Humans are good at thinking about mechanisms, very complex ones too. Thinking about tools, extending to the mechanisms employed in mental toolboxes. In fact evolution has inclined us to observe others that have special attributes, and foster them [or extract from them], ultimately to advantage self, and advantage group if this advantages self. In small groups [ancestral environments] special attributes and comparative advantage from them was sought out of necessity. This searching for and fostering special attributes in self and others seems common across the human species, and probably very much has been a ruthless aspect of bio-history.

The above allows reverse-engineering of cause and effect.