Communication is Intelligence

I suggest that "intelligence" is organized connection of information.  That holds when using "intelligence" to mean an individual's smarts or the insight of a group, or when using "intelligence" to refer to a commodity like "military intelligence" or "industrial intelligence". If so, and communication is a medium for conveying and connecting details, then communication is intelligence.

That doesn't mean that every communication is smart, just as any organization of details can be misguided to any degree. I'm using the term "intelligence" here to talk about organization of information as a principle, not the quality of that organization.

("Subject verb noun" tells about a connection between subject and noun.) (Connections being communicated are, themselves, bits of information, and can be communicated about.)

By this perspective, I consider collaboration between people to be a kind of intelligent being, where the participants and the facilities for communication between them constitute the beings substrate / platform. Just as communication and associations within an individual is intelligence (see How Does "I" Happen?)