If so, does it mean that intelligence is inevitable? I.e. intelligence would be a late process. In that case, intelligence may not be a final process. What would a later process be?
The idea that intelligence is an evolutionary fluke may be wrong: because if intelligence is a process invoked on DNA, it is a method of the DNA object.
Standalone DNA (of which we have a lot) does not form life instantaneously: this only indicates DNA is a data object. It takes a higher level process to operate on the DNA information. Our learning how to process the DNA information indicates the need for a higher level intelligent process to operate on DNA.