no. weather isn't intelligent, it's not alive, yet humans treated it as a god in the past and gave it agency; we understand how it works, yet cannot control it or predict it.
replybut I digress - the main thing: these systems are not alive. They pretend to be.
>these systems are not alive.
replyThe harder science looks, the harder it is to properly define this world without leaving things we'd consider alive out of the definition. Same goes for the word intelligent.
Set theory is a bitch in complex systems.