Flandry's first, mistaken, impression of the Didonians is that they have no hands:
"What value would an intelligence have that could not actively reshape its environment?" (p. 451)
Such an intelligence would not come into existence. Sensitivity became sensation. Manipulation of the environment led to thought about that environment. Physical organisms became conscious, then intelligent. Mind is based in matter, not independent of it.
Can dolphins be intelligent? See Larry Niven's "The Handicapped."
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Kaor, Paul!
And the Supreme Intelligence, God, is independent of all matter.
Ad astra! Sean
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