I think it’s smarter to refer to what we call “intelligence” as a bunch of slow-bandwidth busses that deliver small, simplified packets between large, asynchronous subsystems that handle this sparse data via symbolic logic that tests against memory patterns (themselves sketches of sketches), and is wrong all the time, but largely gets the job done.

That’s why we’re smart, on 25 watts of organic chemistry. All the parts are surprisingly dumb, but the whole kind of works.