A) Intelligence can move matter. An individual, for example, exerts mind over matter when making the conscious choice to move an arm and then following through with the act. Other examples of how intelligence exerts control over matter are widely distributed throughout this book.

(B) The motion of matter perturbs intelligence. Any individual's effective level of intelligence is in constant flux, which at least in part is dependent upon the physical distribution of matter within the brain. Perceptions of reality and behavior are both strongly influenced by the motion of matter in the form of atoms and molecules. For example, neuropeptides acting at the synaptic junctions of neurons directly affect the operation of intelligence. They act to aid in the transmission and communication of information as well as in the feeling and expression of emotion, which in turn influences behavior. The level of intelligence inherent within any organism is, at least in part, dependent upon the spatial distribution of matter, particularly within its central nervous system. The ways that intelligence is influenced by matter are many and varied, and will be discussed in more detail in other sections of this book.

(C) Intelligence at work requires the expenditure of energy. Any time that matter is moved, energy is utilized. Therefore, when the conscious act of moving an arm is performed, intelligence is controlling the expenditure of energy.

(D) The expenditure or dissipation of energy (entropy) perturbs intelligence, and is also necessary to the process of producing an increase in the information content of the universe, as well as allowing the evolution of intelligence to levels of increasing complexity. This will also be discussed in greater detail in another section.

(E) Matter can be converted into energy as defined in Einstein's equation (E=mc²).

(F) Energy can likewise be converted into matter. As the universe has expanded, energy has congealed into matter in increasingly complex states.

Because all of the basic ingredients of the universe are strongly interdependent and interconnected, intelligence has certain properties which are specifically related to space, time, matter and energy.

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