> Having lots of connections may be important to Intelligence, but the brain is a knotted mess of connections.

Ok, thank you for the clarification. I still don't see why that's a problem for you. Is it your intuition? Practical experience? Academic knowledge?

I for one am pretty generous with what I think it takes for intelligence, or for that matter the universe its self, to emerge. I don't think the universe is at all constrained by our imagination.