The Universal Intellect

According to Ibn Bajah and the earliest interpretation offered by Evarouise, the material intellect itself is bound up with individual experiences through the imagination. This explains very nicely why you understand and I don't, but it violates the nature of intellect itself which is supposed to be unmixed with the body. Despite its name, even material intellect is completely free of connection to matter. But that leaves unexplained how the intellect belongs to one person rather than another. What we need then is to accept the universality of all intellect while still explaining the obvious fact that different people have the experience of thinking about different things. And so we finally reach Evarouises's notorious doctrine of the unity of