“To observe beings with a microscope, we must usually kill them. Now, translate this analogy to the functions of your mind. When you evaluate, you collapse the native dimensionality of beings into an abstraction. This produces something like a manipulable token. In the mind, they are no longer alive. And neither, then, are we. For we undergo the same collapse when enacting this behaviour. Except that is is the scope of our awareness, and our nobler faculties that are thus summarily evicted.”

— an anonymous informant