Ultimately, a person's fully realized intellect is able theoretically to conjoin with the Agent Intellect, all traces of individuality excised.
Her ideas, her comeback in New Hampshire and strong showing in Nevada, her new openness to explaining herself and not just her programs, and her abiding, powerful intellect show she is fully capable of doing just that.
He does say, however, that man is not fully joined to his intellect, an intellect that is always in act and resplendent with the universe of beings.
In one of his minor essays on the topic, Averroes portrays the fully realized acquired intellect of a person as losing its identity upon attaining conjunction with the Agent Intellect,[74] being totally absorbed in it.
Were he to be fully joined to his intellect, were the intellect to become man's form, then man would understand everything all at once.
Under such a power the potential intellect of humanity can be fully actuated the intellect, that is, of collective humanity, existent throughout the world, acting as one.
The novels suggest that those whose opportunities to achieve wealth and power are restricted end up not fully using their intellect and emotions, and that they would not make the choices they make under better conditions, as Elster's "sour grapes" phenomenon predicts.
Man is not "fully joined" to his intellect in the sense that the intellect is not his form.
He was a bold, creative intellect who embodied his belief, living fully to the very end.
This directly resonates with what A.H. Armstrong, in his study of Plotinus, has described as the Neoplatonic doctrine of "Double Selfhood," a sensitivity to the human condition being at one and the same time (1) already fully imbued with the fullest state of intellect, but somewhat paradoxically also (2) fallen from and needing to return to the fullest state of intellect.
