“Though we may ‘reasonably’ refer to the body as a thing, it is, more properly a process… and more properly still, a vast and implacable mystery — whose natures will be unconvered not by thought or discrimination — but instead by intimacy.

And whatever the mind may be, it cannot be a thing, or even properly a process. It is more accurately (and still incompletely) a species of activity. It is thus an improvisation, however informed it may appear by habit or convention. Thus, when too severely structured, it appears as a thing, whether this structure is in activity or reflection upon its proper category.

But what is the ‘proper’ category for that with which we apprehend or invent categories? It cannot be categorically encompassed, in the same way that vision is never what is seen, but, instead, the creative or impoverished experiences of sight.

Among the most fundamental of the cruel errors we are taught to obey without question are those not only of categories (i.e. starting with the wrong kind when the processes of reasoning or evaluation are invoked — or with but a »single kind), but the loss of the creative imagination that understands categories (and language) as little more than utilitarian activities of the mind, whereby it is most often deprived of knowledge, rather than acquiring it.”

— an intelligence agent