When it comes to things that matter, the way we use counting is very often wrong. Because we count by categories, not essence. Examples? If two people are in a room we think there are two people there. But people of what? Our people? The behavior of the people forms all kinds of things, and many of them are not human. This is because ‘what counts’ isn’t the body or the category, what actually counts is the relational manifold and how they form, correct, or defect from the possibilities of their existence together. All of us have had the experience of feeling »more alone among groups of humans, or even in a ‘2-person’ conversation. For objects that are commodities, explicit counting appears ‘accurate’, but in actual human experience, ‘what counts’ is rarely numbers. It’s the spirit that unifies or divides us, and the ways in which this becomes true over time.