It is dependent on the Agent Intellect entirely, with only the soul's independent substantiality separating it from being totally absorbed in it.
As long as we accept the traditional conception of the will as being "blind" and dependent on the guidance of the intellect, we might think that there is something to be said for the claim that we can only bring about what we know.
The one is dependent on the other".
As mentioned above, essences depend on the divine intellect, which is their exemplary cause.
In the first case, essences depend on the divine intellect, in the second, on the divine will.
Nature, the soul, and the human intellect are, however, insufficient to attain perfection and it is not possible to leave out of consideration the acts generated by volition and choice which depend on the practical intellect.
Nonetheless, the denial of a pure intellect did not imply denying that human beings have an idea of God; the latter is acquired in the same way as other ideas, namely by using an intellect that is organically dependent on the human body.
He also argued that the Incarnation was not dependent on the fact that man had sinned, that will is superior to intellect and love to knowledge, and that the essence of heaven consists in beatific love rather than the vision of God.
Far from grounding intellect in sensation, al-Kindi argues in On the Intellect that the human intellect has a parallel, but separate, function to human sense-perception.
Right now the intellect presents x as good, so I will x; but later on the intellect presents y as good, so then I will y.
