In this chapter we are going to take a long and hard look at this thing we call intelligence, a somewhat lengthy discussion that may border on philosophical exegesis. At this juncture, this is unavoidable, and I seek the reader’s indulgence, for ontological misperception can cost us dearly, and we need to set matters straight as far as fundamental distinctions are concerned. It is also a matter of pedagogically fostering the right attitude toward categorical differences. For then we come to understand which paths are ontologically aligned with whom, and what are the potentialities, moving forward from there. Here our task will be to grasp the rudiments of the manner in which sentient intelligence comes to posit a world, and also its task therein, as well as the creative risks it must take in positing it. That is to say, we look at the manner in which, out of an immense and incredible range of sensory impingements, we come to delineate a relatively stable reality, and thereafter the susceptibilities that propel us forward to seek a continuous revision of our reality. This relatively stable world is the product of an ethico-aesthetic intelligence, and not an algorithmic-programmable one, simply because the tension between stability and change is an emergent, organic, and embodied dialectic. Only bodies that suffer in the broadest sense of the term, and have an inner life, can possess/develop the embodied intelligence necessary for sentient presence.