The universe, viewed at its most fundamental level, is not merely a collection of discrete particles and localized forces but an intricately interconnected, dynamic fabric woven from latent information and emergent potentiality. This foundational substrate can be conceptualized as comprising dynamic information fields, where information serves as a primary constituent of reality itself, not merely a description of it. Within this framework, intelligence does not arise solely as a complex emergent property confined to biological organisms or computational systems. Instead, it manifests as a pervasive, active process of organizing, structuring, and refining this inherent informational architecture. This perspective posits that intelligence is not an exclusive characteristic of organic neural networks or silicon-based processors but exists as a fundamental capacity for ordered processing, adaptive transformation, and purposeful configuration embedded within the very structure of reality itself, operating at scales far more fundamental and ubiquitous than conventionally considered. This intrinsic capability involves the transformation of potential states into actualized configurations through the active processing and manipulation of information, reflecting a form of physical computation inherent in the universe’s dynamics, akin to the universe computing its own future by navigating the landscape of possibilities encoded within its informational substrate.