It is almost as if we were selected to fulfill the role of an intelligent interface to the biosphere. A kind of biocognitive relational microscope, through which the unified intelligence of the planet could re-enter, re-present, and contact itself at the animal scale of terrestrial life.

Whether we were engineered for this or were selected, it appears we were in the right place in the tree of life at the right time. We acquired the role, and the related evolutionary benefits.

But something went horribly wrong. Over time, the peculiar character of the intelligence that was established in our species as a result of this success began to compete against the original relationships that catalyzed, fertilized and endowed it. It is as if there was an accident of some sort, and the intelligences organizing and guiding the development of our own disappeared from our common access and experience.

The apparent result was that human intelligence went rogue in their absence. It now wages open war against itself, our species, the planet, meaning, and the basis of life on Earth. And it is demonstrating a rather troubling tendency to win, explosively, decisively, and permanently.