Most people associate mind and intelligence mainly with humans and only marginally with other highly evolved animals. We tend to regard humankind as separate from the rest of nature, a different order of being. In pre-modern times this was not so.
Today most scientists recognise that humankind is an integral, interrelated, part of the universe. We are of the earth, and of Spirit and mind, a product of cosmic processes, not outside observers or alien invaders. Some say we are stardust, however, we are much more than just dust, wherever its origins.
