“My idea was that what we call intelligence is actually a game of distributed intelligence, where the sum of a planet’s organisms are working together, at all times, in a kind of hyperconnective game that grows more cognitively and relationally unified as its members and populations grow more physically distinct. This is the most interesting game imaginable. It is astonishing that the humans could so misconstrue their role in it as to imagine themselves distinct, and somehow possessing the assets which are and can only be the result of intimate awareness and participation.”

— an anonymous informant