“One of the first movements of the waking mind upon becoming aware of an event or phenomenon is to assign it to a category of ‘things’ or ‘processes’. The next move specifies its position within that set. But the first move, if mistaken, too narrow, or incomplete… causes a form of blindness peculiar to our species. Understanding this first move is, then, the most crucial thing we can do in terms of recovering perceptual and cognitive liberty.”

— an intelligence agent