“Contrary to popular ideas, it is not precisely your brain where your intelligence lives, though representational cognition is happening ‘in there’.

But representational cognition is primarily for human social and cultural contexts… which are infinitesimally tiny compared to the animal we are and the intelligences we bring to human existence.

That thing in your head is a flower. The place where your actual intelligence lives is your gut. What happens in your gut and intestines… is telling your brain and body ‘what the world is’, and what to become.”

— an anonymous informant