And then there's the story about Milton Erickson as a small boy who saw his father trying to get a cow to go into the barn. No matter how hard he pulled on the rope, the cow wouldn't go in. Milton said that he could get the cow into the barn. When his father challenged him to try, he pulled on the cow's tail in a direction away from the barn and the cow pulled him in.
Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle of the universe.