“When an organism emerges on Earth, the entire history of life (and the universe) is ‘born’ inside that organism. And lives there, while it lives. When a human person is born, a unique instance of these and the histories of humanity is born inside them. So that each human being is a world that is vast, and the entire world is inside each human being… uniquely.

It is far simpler for me to prefer this notion over many others, because it is like the experience of being… and of being human. Something similar applies, at another order, to ecological and human groups; they instance a world… at an order beyond the individual. So when two humans meet, two entirely unique yet complete histories undergo reunion. And the implications of this are staggering…

The idea that the world is a single container that we are all equally in makes a kind of crude categorical sense; but it is mostly wrong. The world is a unification system… that diversifies the assets of its being and re-unites them, so that experience, intimacy, insight… and a few other fascinating things which we have no English words for… are enriched with unimaginable complexity… and knowledge.”

— an anonymous informant