Talk:Wurm/@comment-28856683-20160320004610/@comment-27069434-20160416224058

People often take intelligence too broadly. It wouldn't be too wild of a guess to assume that what KC meant was not the general mental aptitude, but rather formal and scientific aspect of intelligence, which, let's face it, is not so commonly displayed by our kind. And, since Wurms originally evolved in a natural process, they should posess, let's say, at least bestial cunning, since nature does not tolerate explicit stupidity. Sure, your average Wurm might not be able to tell Balzac's and Moliere's writings apart, but that's because she couldn't care less about them in the first place, survival and seeking mate being their priorities, as in how to spot and evade/thrash Order ambush while looking for a man. They should be capable of developing logics at least below average in social/cultural/etc, especially if the man they've claimed shows particular interest in these fields, while their deductive abilities concerning more pragmatic matters should be at least above average from the start so as to allow their survuval in the first place.