The paper describes the home as a body. Sensors at the edges work like neurons, taking in what is happening in one place. Immediate decisions work like reflexes, acting before anything has to travel. Home intelligence works like the brain, holding context and making the judgments that require a view of the whole, while memory gives that judgment continuity over time. The cloud sits outside the body, a window to the outside world rather than a part of it.The paper sets out three requirements for an autonomous home. It must reach every connected device in the house, which the paper argues requires the Matter standard, since intelligence that sees only some brands sees only part of the home. Its decisions have to happen locally, at the device for anything immediate and at the household level for anything needing a wider view. And it needs to remember, because a home cannot anticipate what a household needs without learning from what has happened before.The cloud remains essential in this model, supporting model training, updates, remote access, outside information and tasks that require additional computing capacity.