Deprived of the energy required for a running a miasma of cognitive simulations and linguistic forms… ordinary animals — plants, and insects… experience what I refer to as active sensing in ways so profound as to render ESP relatively trivial. But they have that as well. The price we pay for representational cognition is far too high to volunteer for. The primary benefit is tools and structure… yet, alas, without its predecessors… these benefits quickly become ironic.