Aristotle believed that God’s business is to think. Not any old thinking; noodle-doodles aren’t thinking, and neither is wondering what’s for dinner. No, God is thinking about ideas. Big ones. That is what the Supreme Being does all day – thinking being the capacity that distinguishes the higher life-forms. God alone can be considered independent of matter – so Aristotle seems to say that our higher function (our thinking selves) might also be able to live separately from the matter it sits in. Intelligence not bound to materiality.
