Naturally Artificial Intelligence

Whenever i think of so called "artificial intelligence", I try to find related instances from the nature. Like few gentleman proposed the bee-hive study could lead to major breakthroughs in server-client models of internet. Though i do not have any knowledge about artificial intelligence and its various other aspects, this thought struck my mind. We know the diffusion principle and stuff, where particles flow from high concentration region to low concentration at a particular rate or so. Frankly i dont know the mathematics of this even. But just a thought that if there is mall in a city, the high concentration spot, even then people move from the low concentration parts[like the road or home] to the already highly populated malls. An urban area is also an analogy of this phenomenon. The point i observed is that such a flow implies [or involves] presence of consciousness and memory. One such simple event is reverse osmosis in plants, may be there is a mechanical principle behind this[ even which im sure i dont know]. But isnt that a crest and trough on a surface could represent a 1 or 0, obvious. This obvious phenomenon is responsible for the CD which we use to store hell lot of data. So may be there is consciousness in reverse osmosis as well.