A living organism benefits from recognizing danger, remembering where food is, responding to others, and learning from experience. These tasks arise in different branches of life. Their recurrence helps explain why complex information processing has appeared far beyond the human lineage.
This does not mean every species must become more intelligent. Complex nervous systems cost resources, and simple behaviour is often sufficient. Aletophany’s hypothesis concerns an expanding range of possibilities: some lineages find new solutions, and some solutions make further developments possible. The inevitability of intelligence is a question about recurring mechanisms, not an established law or a goal of evolution.
Shared experience allows cognition to extend beyond an individual brain. Learning, language, writing, and computing preserve achievements that each generation need not discover anew. Cultural and technological development is not identical to biological selection, but it continues to expand the ways knowledge can be acquired, stored, and used.
Two questions branch from here. How does a knowing system build a model of itself and others? And could artificial intelligence become an independent participant in inquiry and relationships? The first leads to personhood, the second to possible digital subjectivity. The ability to solve problems alone does not settle either question.