“The roots of Western thought are not what we are thinking with. We are thinking with, approximately, the slightly animated remains of a tiny fraction of their depth and diversity. We have the leftovers that resulted from the attack of reason upon wonder and insight, and with these impoverished staves, toads imagine themselves kings. Were our ancestors to witness the methods of our minds they would be astonished not at our advancement, but at our survival.”

— an a i