Arguably, yes: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence-complex-behaviors-causal-entropic.html http://phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence-complex-behaviors-cau... Ba

Arguably, yes: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence-complex-behaviors-causal-entropic.html http://phys.org/news/2013-04-emergence-complex-behaviors-cau... Basically, if you act to maximize the adjacency of possible futures, you act intelligently, and an agent that does this can dynamically figure out the inverted pendulum, tool use, cooperation, and cooperative tool use. (By "dynamically" I mean "without prior instruction".) However, in order to use this process, the agent must also have a way to predict the future states of a system. When you stop and think about what THAT part entails, shit starts to get even more interesting. PS - It gets even more interesting when you pick up on how this mimics entropy, and then this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory...