Microbes aren’t “intelligent.” They adapt in ways which are intelligent in some ways. Unfortunately, they adapt only by the absolutely lethal varieties ceasing to exist after they’ve killed off their host. And in this case, their host isn’t a single organism, but an entire order of organisms.
—Microbes aren’t “intelligent.”
Of course not; I was writing allegorically. If anything, “intelligence” resembles the behavior of populations of organisms over long periods of time. Read some of the works of Gerald Edelman, if you have a lot of spare time.