Some time after learning about Trees in Computer Science, and IFS (Iterated Function Systems, aka Fractals) in Math, I was one day contemplating trees in the real world, and I thought to myself -- "You know, trees in the real world -- might be Nature's way of holding information... But, of course, we as humans -- have yet to figure out how to parse that information..."

That would also, incidentally, apply to all plant life, too...

One good example of this (to be able to have an intuitive cognition about it) would be the Barnsley (aka Fractal) Fern:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern

Also, for another intuitive cognition -- watch videos of plant growth, most notably tree growth -- sped up many thousands of times -- the branches of the tree appear to move in very strange ways!

The tree looks alive!

After you've seen a video like that, compare this to such biological entities as nerve cells, the way that nerve cells branch out, etc.