RICHARD: You are creating a distinction between 'animal intelligence' and 'LLM intelligence' based on their optimization pressures, yet you seem to be conflating 'instinctual passions' with 'intelligence'. What you describe as the drivers of animal intelligence---fear, status, dominance, and social bonding---are merely the crude survival mechanisms bestowed by blind nature, which actually serve to cripple intelligence rather than define it.
Here is a perspective from an actual freedom from the human condition:
You state that animal intelligence arises from a "drive for homeostasis," "power-seeking," and "packaged survival heuristics: fear, anger, disgust."
I assert that animals are not intelligent^1^. What you are describing are the instinctual passions---fear and aggression and nurture and desire---which are born out of the struggle for survival^2^. It is easily discerned that animals are not aware of their actions, let alone the instinctual passions that dri
