Maybe, but making intelligence an intrinsic property of matter feels like a bold step.
There are other bolder things I've seen recently that are somewhat interesting.
Michael Levin and a few other biologists are wondering if certain combinations of matter are tapping into platonic maths that they use for 'intelligence compute'.
I mean Roger Penrose proposes that consciousness is inside the waveform collapse so…
Many definitions of intelligence and ultimately consciousness rely on fanciful ideas and complex theories