John Henry

I'm no biologist, but I'm pretty sure that thinking has a lot to do with neurons. Until we see at least the slightest shred of evidence that uncondensed energy is capable of thinking, I don't think it's reasonable to assume that it is. Quite a lot is understood about where our awareness, self or otherwise, comes from, and although energy is involved, matter is pretty fundamental.

It's important not to be confused by words. Intelligence isn't so much something which exists in us so much as something we do. We can use legs to walk and are made of organic matter. Not everything made of organic matter can walk and walking isn't something which exists in the leg, or an inherent property of the universe.

Also, there is no reason at all to assume that something in one form shares the qualities of that thing in another form, or that anything shares the behaviour or qualities of its composite. Uncondensed energy cannot think any more than steam can melt, bricks can be lived in or trees can be sailed.

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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."