While we think the modern person of the 21st century is the most educated person of all history and the most intelligent of all animals, that may not be true. The hunting society lived self-sufficiently by tribe off the land. But should oil flows stop tomorrow, the means of sustenance of urban dwellers worldwide would come to an abrupt halt and mass starvation, disease, and death to billions would follow. Modern man does not have the intelligence to survive as the hunters of old. Can not survive as any animal or insect could.
Intelligence is relative.
If we looked for a broader meaning, we might consider the following. Ultimately, at its root, the genotype is actually nothing more than immaterial energy configuring atoms and molecules into genetic code. This idea is not new nor original. Aristotle theorized that God was pure Thought and prior to the Greeks, the Judeo-Christian idea of the Logos, and Egyptian idea of their God, Amun. The physical is not the blueprint the immaterial electromagnetic is.