https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/we-are-pod-animals-a4fd2ffbf6ca#.ybafnspkv

“Humans, like many similar creatures, are ‘pod animals’. This means that in order to feel at home in the world and our bodies, we must (generally, there are some exceptions and degrees) belong to extremely intimate, mutually developmentally self-accelerating groups (like our own hands). Throughout most of our evolutionary history, this was our natural state, until a point where the representational aspect of consciousness began to rise into a disembodied and domineering role in human cultures.”