Yeah, I can kind of see it. "Intelligence" is something like ability to adapt/respond to the environment. That gets super weird, though, when it's not at all clear what the objective function is.

With living things, at least we think we know the objective function is something like what's laid out in The Selfish Gene.

I think Levin might argue (I don't actually know) that a vacuum would score a zero. If he's assigning things like chemical processes an intelligence score, I think he might score an iron atom an intelligence score. He's explicitly pushing around the definition of intelligence though, like light was once meant only visible light.

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I have trouble coming up with an alternative that makes sense to me. My inclination is to think that inanimate objects are at zero, though.

Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying have talked about why consciousness is likely only a quality of things that are capable of making choices.

Is it a necessary quality of acting things, though?