Here’s a hypothesis about the inverse correlation arising from your observation: When we evaluate a thing’s coherence, we sample behaviours in environments we expect to find the thing in. More intelligent things operate in a wider variety of environments, and the environmental diversity leads to behavioural diversity that we attribute to a lack of coherence.
Without thinking about it too much, this fits my intuitive sense. An amoeba can’t possibly demonstrate a high level of incoherence because it simply can’t do a lot of things, and whatever it does would have to be very much in line with its goal (?) of survival and reproduction.
Here’s a hypothesis about the inverse correlation arising from your observation: When we evaluate a thing’s coherence, we sample behaviours in environments we expect to find the thing in. More intelligent things operate in a wider variety of environments, and the environmental diversity leads to behavioural diversity that we attribute to a lack of coherence.
Without thinking about it too much, this fits my intuitive sense. An amoeba can’t possibly demonstrate a high level of incoherence because it simply can’t do a lot of things, and whatever it does would have to be very much in line with its goal (?) of survival and reproduction.