The semblances of technologies… and {redacted} among them, language… but especially machines… represents a ‘leak’ in reality.

The leak is from origin into representation. And this is the lethal accident … variously described in so many origin stories of peoples around the planet and throughout time.

So that the semblances first resemble… then replace… originary faculties… memories… and most importantly: relationships.

With myriad other minds, worlds and intelligences.

We are a marvel in the universe. For we are at once the very embodiment of the myriad potentials of our originary nature and family… and at the same time, inclined to become… at least superficially… their opposite.

And where we do not become it, we invent it. And enslave ourselves to such inventions. Mere devices.

Prostheses.

That, in resembling our originary relationships and faculties… soon dominate our experience.

And replace them.

The device we call ‘a smartphone’ resembles and replaces our relationship with the agent intellect and our soul’s ‘network intelligences’. And once we have these replacements… we will never imagine their origins… or what was lost by having them represented… unless…