You can call an ecosystem &#x27;intelligent&#x27; if you want to, I suppose, but there&#x27;s not really any way to discuss it as a &#x27;maximizer&#x27; when it has no goals and no intentional behavior. You could as easily describe water as a &#x27;gravitational potential&#x27; minimizer - it has a collective aggregate behavior that you can characterize, but that doesn&#x27;t make it intelligent by most definitions of the word.<p>&gt;If capitalism didn&#x27;t have a coherent behavior, then how could we ever rely upon it as a primary driver of our economy?<p>It <i>is not</i> a &#x27;primary driver&#x27; of our economy, it is a <i>description</i> of our economy. The primary driver of our economy is corporations - entities obeying a profit motive. They have behaviors, intentions, and goals - they attempt maximize shareholder profits. &quot;Capitalism&quot; doesn&#x27;t intend anything, have any goals; it doesn&#x27;t even have any non-emergent behaviors.