Intelligence Across Kingdoms: Shared Hardware, Triadic Architecture, and the Geometric Basis of Memory

Intelligence is conventionally treated as a human trait, or at most a neural one. This paper argues
it is neither: intelligence is what sufficiently organized triadic matter does, wherever that matter
appears. Plants and animals — down to the smallest microorganisms — run on shared biological
equipment: cells, membranes, ion channels, microtubules, fractal branching architectures. What
differs between kingdoms, and between individuals, is adaptation and configuration, not the
underlying machinery.
Three universal behaviors appear across all living things: sensing the environment, provisioning
offspring, and protecting others — a sense-provision-protect triad that mirrors the framework's
minimum stable architecture. Memory, in this account, is not stored like files on a drive but as
geometric configurations in a shared substrate, with the brain serving as tuner and local cache
rather than warehouse. Each pass over an experience leaves an imprint whose strength
determines recall; filing and retrieval architectures must match or the memory is present but
unreachable. Neurodivergence appears here not as deficit but as position on an architectural
scale — structurally different filing, mismatched by environments built for one end of the scale.
The paper states falsifiable predictions and honest boundaries. What is observed is labeled
observed; what is modeled is labeled modeled; what is open is labeled open.
Keywords: triality, intelligence, plant cognition, memory consolidation, neurodivergence,
geometric memory, quorum sensing, hyperphantasia