I have bad news. You too are just a slave to your basic functions. Why do you suppose you seek out "intelligent" discussions/content/whatever? Pleasure seeking behavior, with a bit of ego thrown in.
Unless you are discussing possible solutions to global warming, or whether or not man should visit Mars, what's the point? Is there really any benefit of "intelligent" discussion over what the latest Kardashian incident was or whatever? Probably not.
We derive pleasure from intelligent discussion. Others derive pleasure from other things. While the intelligent advance society, there's nothing wrong with being a normal person that's just trying to live their life, and enjoy it.