I think your definition of intelligence is good and is simply broader than mine. I split your definition in two parts and only labelled the first part 'intell

I think your definition of intelligence is good and is simply broader than mine. I split your definition in two parts and only labelled the first part 'intelligence'. part 1: Predicting the unknown which can be the probabilities of outcome of your actions and such. part 2. Evaluating these outcomes and their likelihoods to make a decision based on some utility or preference function. I can see contexts where the word 'intelligence' would encompass both parts. In the context of thermodynamics or information theory I think intelligence is more about the prediction part because pure matter or even computers don't really have preference of outcome so the second part is mostly irrelevant to their 'intelligence'. The original article seems to take low entropy as a stated goal or preference of the system which is not a bad sub goal in that it is thermodynamically efficient and saves usable energy longer but I don't think being thermodynamically efficient should be the only goal of an intelligent system.