In a way not entirely dissimilar to some experiences of dreaming, meaning and identity remain somewhat fluid in nature, being more functions of action and relation than the results of taxonomies. This diverse fluidity invites our intelligence to relational intimacy and encourages its profuse development.

The boxes and machines we make cannot replace nature, any more than they can replace dreams. If our minds take on their likeness we will not merely become prisoners of a fiction, we shall have become the prisons we and our children must build and occupy.