 The sensory commanding faculty is divided into concupiscible and irascible parts. The reactions of the concupiscible power are desires for things taken to be pleasurable, and the reactions of the irascible power are desires to defeat adversaries and repel harmful things (De anima I.5, 83; IV.4, 56–57). The objects of emotions are recognized as emotionally relevant by the estimative power. By this power, the sheep judges that the wolf is to be avoided, “even though the exterior sense has not previously perceived it”. Avicenna calls the representations of the estimative power “intentions”. The recognition of the intentions is often instinctive in animals, but it is mostly conscious and pre-intellectually conceptual in humans (De anima I.5, 86, 89; IV.1, 7; IV.3. 37–39; see also Black 2000; Hasse 2000: 130–141: Perler 2012). As an occurrent emotion involves acts of separate faculties, there must be some kind of governing awareness that combines these acts (De anima V.7, 158–159; Kitāb al-najāt 2.6.15, trans. Rahman, 64–68); cf. Toivanen and Yrjönsuuri 2014: 441–442).