Human-specific gene increases primate neocortex in the fetal marmoset
There&#x27;s an argument to be made that evolution has intelligence &quot;on tap&quot; as it were, or in other words, evolving systems have as much intelligence as is adaptive.<p>Wolfram and others have shown that (what we think of as) complex computation arises commonly and naturally in even moderately complex and interconnected systems.  Far from being rare, the machinery to support intelligence arises in most energy gradients.  (Roughly speaking there are four regimes: static, dull, Life, chaotic.)<p>Michael Levin et. al. are busy showing how all living tissue has agency and intelligence.  (E.g. take some skin cells and put them in the right conditions and they turn into little critters and creep around!)  The biomolecular machinery that neurons use to think is present in all multicellular tissue.<p>So, intelligence is ambient in living tissue (and has been for N billion years, where N is roughly 4 I think?)<p>- - - -<p>I got this far and forgot what my original point was...  I swear it was relevant.