Sam Altman, the famous venture capitalist, says we have stumbled on a new fact of nature: that intelligence is an emergent property of matter.
https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1789115194939265173
This is a silly materialistic explanation for consciousness. Reasoning, language, self-awareness do not spring from matter. Matter itself is and will always be inert without an animating will and soul.
Who is to say whether or not it is but is guided by a higher intelligence or power? I would be just fine with believing that development of intelligence might even be shaped by some complex unknowable property of the universe.
On the other hand, might intelligence be recursive, meaning that it self-evolves to become better and better.
Life forms that manage to arrange themselves to tap into such a property (evolving to have brains) could selectively reproduce to create better and better intelligence.
And THAT is why octopuses are the secret rulers of Earth!
https://files.catbox.moe/jgo3sx.webp