That was kind of my point, all of that is through a human centric point of view. What if higher intelligence is something else? Look at say plants, they've bee

That was kind of my point, all of that is through a human centric point of view. What if higher intelligence is something else? Look at say plants, they've been shown to be intelligent in various ways. https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/92/1/1/177536 https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/92/1/1/177536 Now, when you take an ecosystem like a forest, something interesting happens. The plants begin to communicate with eachother using electrical signals passed along the mycorrhizal networks of the fungi that live symbiotically with them. https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aobpla/plv050/201398 https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article-abstract/doi/10.1093... https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75596-0_10 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75596-0_... So, these networks facilitate learning by individual plants within the network, they facilitate long term memory, complex coordinated long term behaviour. Now, a lot of these behaviours and things happen over spans of decades to hundreds if not thousands of years. That sounds very much like some level of higher intelligence, yet those plants will never complete a 2048 or sokoban puzzle.