Good question.
What is intelligence?
Are we intelligent because we think? What is thought?
The universe may not care what we think, but I find it interesting to form hypothesis about the functioning of the universe. For instance, we are able to *form* thoughts, the word “form” implies that we have the ability to create something that may be intangible, but has some information content, that information content then has some type of a form, shape, pattern, or structure that exists in our brains. I can also imagine that if such a pattern has a coherent structure or a logical mathematical progression, then it also contains intelligence.
Perhaps someone more intelligent than I, can prove that I am wrong.