Leave it to humans to ridiculously believe that they are the only creatures sophisticated enough to have minds… minds, which, by the way, are largely the result of endless and profound evolutionary immersion in and with forests and other living places — and thousands of diversely alive and intimately relational beings… so they acquire and evolve sophisticated minds, and then pretend the source of all that was themselves? Astonishing. Absurd. Some other word starting with A.