Of course, it's only a small piece of the puzzle, but I do wonder what kind of existing organism would roughly match it by complexity, at least in terms of problem solving capacity.

A bunch of cells likely have more than a few GB of data between them, but most of it is just instructions on how to fold proteins to replicate themselves. Is that intelligent behavior or just mindlessly executing a script, albeit in DNA form? I would lean towards the latter.

I suppose it's hard to compare biological intelligent systems directly since they all have to process all available sensory info in a timely manner, not just very narrow text input. Once there are more LMMs trained on vision, sound, and kinematic data it should get far easier to draw comparisons.

> but if every basketball player turned into Spaghetti-os and started screaming you'd still hear the sounds and see the O's

Unless of course someone had set up a Somebody else's problem field generator around them :)