“I once believed that intelligence was somewhere inside me, while the phenomenon outside me was mute, but really, the phenomenon outside me was intelligent, although I was deaf to it. I believed that the phenomenon, lacking the power of speech, needed me to project my intelligence onto it. While projecting my intelligence onto it, however, the ‘I’ that originally sought to transform it was shown to be more superficial than the phenomenon itself, like a surface phenomenon obscuring the phenomenon itself. The phenomenon itself began to think through the death of the ‘I’, transforming the ‘I’. I was thought by the phenomenon. Therefore, I became something new. Through the phenomenon, I died, and I was reborn. I realized that intelligence is an ecological event, not a private, outwardly projected computation.”

— an anonymous informant (TD)