No, "intelligence" is an issue of survival, it is intelligent to survive. Survival is a key aspect of intelligence. I do want to survive but the intelligent course of action of not merely what I would do. The sensibleness, the intelligence of survival, is something beyond myself, it is applicable to other beings, but people do disagree regarding the definition of intelligence. Some people think it is intelligent to die.

You need to be more precise about what you mean by "intelligent" then, since your usage is either confused or is being communicated very poorly. Possibly consider tabooing the term intelligent.

You seemed elsewhere in this thread to consider Einstein intelligent, but if self-preservation matters for intelligence, then this doesn't make much sense. Any argument of the form "Stalin wasn't intelligent since he didn't use cryonics" is just as much of a problem for Einstein, Bohr, Turing, Hilbert, etc.

truly intelligent people would not need other thinkers to inspire their thinking

Yeah, see this isn't how humans work. We get a lot of different ideas from other humans, we develop them, and we use them to improve our own ideas by combining them. This is precisely why the human discoveries that have the most impact on society are often those which are connected to the ability to record and transmit information.

It seems that what you are doing here is engaging in the illusion of transparency where because you know of an idea, you consider the idea to be obvious or easy.