“Minds organize symmetric unity across gaps. That’s actually the basic nature of minds. You don’t really have minds. You instance Mind, together, with and for the contexts, roles, purposes, and intentions of those involved. That in itself will probably take some time to swallow. The nature of human sapience is the capacity to assemble and inhabit distributed minds. Living places, animals, networks of people… functioning together to resolve problems that isolated humans and cultures cannot even properly frame. That is your birthright. That’s what they are selling you every replacement for. You -cause mindedness to emerge- in and as the world, and only a creature that could learn representational language could ever forget this.”

— an anonymous informant