Most human societies claim dominance over “everything else” aka “nature” and in order to do that you need a reason “humans” are different from “nature”

Maybe, but making intelligence an intrinsic property of matter feels like a bold step.

There are other bolder things I've seen recently that are somewhat interesting.

Michael Levin and a few other biologists are wondering if certain combinations of matter are tapping into platonic maths that they use for 'intelligence compute'.

Interesting. I'll have a look - thx.

He gave his talk first on day 2 of the AGI 26 conference

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBwtgkHnC4&t=289s&pp=2AGhApAC...

I mean Roger Penrose proposes that consciousness is inside the waveform collapse so…

Many definitions of intelligence and ultimately consciousness rely on fanciful ideas and complex theories