Cortesi seemed to me to be saying something different: that ant behaviour was not intelligent, but merely nice algorithms honed by evolution. Which implies that

Cortesi seemed to me to be saying something different: that ant behaviour was not intelligent, but merely nice algorithms honed by evolution. Which implies that intelligent is not nice algorithms honed by evolution. And since evolution is the only mechanism widely agreed to have produced intelligence so far (if we ignore divine intervention), I can't agree with that.