Does your brain have the quality of “intelligence”?
Yes.
If so, then does not Reality necessarily have the quality of intelligence?
No. A few small parts of it do: human brains, to a lesser extent other animals, and that’s it, as far as we’ve seen. There might also be intelligent aliens somewhere in the vastness.
If that’s enough to say that Reality has the quality of intelligence, it is also enough to say the Reality has the qualities of being inebriated, sober, radioactive, inert, rarefied, dense, at 3 degrees C, at 10 million degrees C, every possible colour and none.
ETA: In other words, “Reality has the quality of intelligence” is a deepity: true in a trivial sense and false in a trivial sense, but when the two senses are expressed by the same sentence, it sounds profound.
Yes.
No. A few small parts of it do: human brains, to a lesser extent other animals, and that’s it, as far as we’ve seen. There might also be intelligent aliens somewhere in the vastness.
If that’s enough to say that Reality has the quality of intelligence, it is also enough to say the Reality has the qualities of being inebriated, sober, radioactive, inert, rarefied, dense, at 3 degrees C, at 10 million degrees C, every possible colour and none.
ETA: In other words, “Reality has the quality of intelligence” is a deepity: true in a trivial sense and false in a trivial sense, but when the two senses are expressed by the same sentence, it sounds profound.