how could energy alone be intelligent? why can't light be intelligent?

Question

If energy cannot be intelligent with out matter (matter and energy can be intelligent, because we are so)
matter cannot be intelligent on its own because it would have no way of transferring information... you need energy for that

but why can't energy be intelligent?
is it because particles are unpredictable?
why can't light be intelligent?

Answer 1

you need matter in order to organize and use the energy.

Answer 2

Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. There are several ways to define intelligence. In some cases intelligence may include traits such as creativity, personality, character, knowledge, or wisdom. However other psychologists prefer not to include these traits in the definition of intelligence.

You might be thinking more along the lines of centient - I can't tell.

To run down the list... Lets start with the basic principle of matter and energy being almost the same.

Then note that matter is high in energy, or rather, energy dense. In any way you can convert matter to energy that's the least bit efficient... well anyway you can look up the equations of you care.

Then; though I'm not going to sit here and try to explain what energy "IS" such as to make my point clear - you'd probably have more fun doing a little research anyway; matter is far more organized. Might be visualized like highly dense energy encapsulated, though it's a poor analogy.

Matter organizes into cells that interact creating more complex systems the larger the system gets. Energy has a tendancy toward dissipation and in our reality doesn't really form any elements able to form more than the sum of its individual components.

Not that literally "energy" would need a literal "brain" to be intelligent or at least not that I'm discounting it. Just that - based on the way the universe appears to work there isn't yet any indication that any such thing would even be the least bit reasonable in any way that the laws of physics, reality or the universe works. How? The laws which we create by observation are used in reverse as well, to predict how things will work... The more they work to predict the more we can speculate and understand - based on this intelligent energy just doesn't make sense, in a litteral interpretation.

For example, light is energy, so we might assume light cannot be intelligent because light is energy. Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye (visible light). It's not physically so different from microwave energy, broadcast radio energy...

Heat is also energy. One form I certainly wouldn't consider capable of any intelligence.

See "M Theory" or "Quantum electrodynamics".

Answer 3

You are conflating ideas.

THink about what energy is. If matter moves, it has energy. If it is above absolute zero, it has energy. Even at absolute zero it has zero point motion - ie energy.

The two are inescapably linked.

Maybe what you are asking is why can't massless particles like photons create an intelligence and the answer really is that they are doomed to travel at the speed of light, so they cannot stay in one place to get organised (the interaction between them is also staggeringly tiny).

Answer 4

Intelligence is a property of a mind. It has nothing to do with energy.

Answer 5

Energy is a property, not a substance that things can be made of. Properties and substances are two catagorically different concepts.