Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24277541-20131223185941/@comment-8505655-20131227171155

Perhaps intelligence is just hard to quantify, but the Celestialsapiens never struck me as unusually intelligent. No doubt they have a better vantage point to observe the nature of the universe, and thus greater knowledge and perhaps the capacity to remember their every action, but that isn't exactly the same as intelligence. Then again, maybe their intelligence was veiled by their childishness, so I don't really know.

In any case, I lean toward the limited polling theory. To find the smartest being in a galaxy, someone would need to conduct a very thorough search through that galaxy's inhabitants to find it most intelligent residents, and to find the smartest being in multiple galaxies, the same thing would need to be done on an even bigger scale.

But according to at least one estimate, there are well over one hundred billion galaxies in the known, real world universe, and I would assume that the same probably holds true for the Ben 10 universe.

Presumably, someone surveyed the intelligence of the entire Milky Way (actually, possibly not, Azmuth never specified which galaxies. The Milky Way may not be one of them), and found that Azmuth was the smartest being in it, as well as in four other galaxies. But that's just a drop in the bucket. Azmuth cannot, in full scientific honesty, call himself smarter than any being in galaxies about which he has limited data, and I don't think he would want to. When Psychobos argued with him about who was smarter, Azmuth thought the whole debate was stupid. Azmuth clearly has higher priorities than proving how smart he is.

In other words, I don't think that Azmuth calling himself the smartest being in five galaxies necessarily means that he has a smarter or equally intelligent being in mind. Which isn't to say that that he doesn't, but at least that he possibly doesn't.