DUNE has a perfect example for those familiar. The most intelligent being can see multiple timelines and can shape civilizations over millenia. The more intelli

DUNE has a perfect example for those familiar. The most intelligent being can see multiple timelines and can shape civilizations over millenia. The more intelligent you are the more you can predict the future and plan accordingly. This isn't to say trees or plants can't be intelligent, but I think in order for that to happen the amount of information processing would have to be comparable, so maybe at best some slow, distributed process that has triggers more so than an internal model of the world.