The notion of artificial intelligence is primarily centered around a functional approach where it is tested whether the machine acts intelligently. This paper reports a work-in-progress where we advocate for the idea of the machine itself being inherently intelligent by incorporating two features in the machine – feature of the life and feature of a democratic system. The first property of the life is self-replication, where the machine can reproduce itself indefinitely. The second is self-organization which gives the machine ability to reorganize and heal itself. Fault-tolerance is another important property of an intelligent system that helps it to achieve reliability and context-sensitive nature. Only a many-body system where the elements, like a democratic system, work collectively by interacting among themselves can achieve these properties. Such a machine can be computationally universal. Hence, we claim that, a democratic model of computation can be a better choice for an intelligent system.