Consciousness and intelligence are indistinguishable, although this may in part be due to the inherent fuzziness of these concepts. A characteristic act is the seemingly spontaneous flash of sense-making in the minutest instant of an ongoing duration. This is a synthetic act and in order for it to come about the material that was synthesised is presumed to have been present in a prior moment, present as a field of tensions to be resolved. Generally, however, we are not aware of this prior history until after the act, the synthesis being the same as the noticing. Unless there is an alteration in the tensions there will be no consciousness, and any such alteration of tension appears as intelligence. Phenomena of this sort are the reason why the metaphor of energy is so commonly adopted for the goings on in the field of the spirit or mind. A rearrangement of a network of tensions means the migration of key difference from one part, or level, of the structure into another. Some are released some are newly polarised, but the aggregate effect is believed to be a gain. Intelligence is defined as the recipient of this inferred gain. In waking life it is collective and coherent, at least locally, in dream not at all so.