Can Animals be intelligent?

On the Distinction Between Two Forms of Knowing

This will ramble a bit. I added to this in bits and pieces during the day, and now I'm sleepy. This is a continuation of the earlier discussion about Intelligent Aliens.

You are what you eat!

Aristotle famously compared knowing to eating. In both cases, the organism takes in something outside of itself and makes it part of itself. In eating, say, an apple, the form of the apple is lost and the matter is incorporated into the eater's matter....