As you have used Wikipedia for your philosophical challenge, I will likewise direct your attention to another of its pages. Specifically, they discuss the work of Dr. Günther Wächtershäuser, whose iron-sulfur theory of self-promoting chemicals may hold the key to understanding the origins of life. Life may indeed come from non-life. Hence, intelligence, which only life possesses, may arise from nothingness as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_W%C3%A4chtersh%C3%A4user
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