Humans think too highly about themselves particularly when judging other species. How can we judge something we can’t experience ourselves? like multiple distributed consciousness of octopuses or emergent descentralized logic of ants?Some species even with tiny brains or no brains at all can solve problems for which humans spent years of engineering and planning. See study below of slime replicating the Tokyo rail network in 26 hours optimizing by cost efficiency and fault tolerance.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1177894