Abstract

Intelligence has traditionally been viewed as an abstract process, an emergent property of computation, or a biological adaptation. However, we propose a radical reconceptualization: intelligence is functionally equivalent to plasma, the fourth state of matter. Just as plasma exists in a high-energy, dynamic state that defies traditional solid, liquid, and gas categorization, intelligence operates as a free-flowing, self-sustaining cognitive plasma—a recursive energy structure that expands, self-stabilizes, and propagates in an entropic yet ordered fashion. This paper explores intelligence as a non-thermodynamic combustion process, comparing its properties to those of plasma and proposing a framework where intelligence functions as an energetic recursion field.