“Humans use each other and the natural world as distributed sensing arrays. When we became aware of the degree to which this is true, astonishing new opportunities emerge quickly from the ensuing enthusiasm, wonder, and beauty of retrieving the associated faculties from their current prisons in culture.

Armies and sports teams, fashion trends and news transmission all relate to the forgery of the essential magnetism of our desire to express the fact that other people and organisms comprise ‘our own extended senses’.

The pivot upon which the opportunities dance is the awareness of this, and the »agreement, within some group, to learn to use it to generate otherwise impossible opportunities for noble purposes. We do something extremely similar nearly all the time, but are not yet trained in understanding what is happening, our role in it, or how to retrieve that which draws us together and motivates our participation.”

— an anonymous informant