Our minds are extremely unlike both our science and our fiction. They entangle via interest. Now, if the interest is in something dead, something copied, our minds actually take on this characteristic, and will -openly defend it against novelty-. In fact, we cannot really be interested in non-living (that is, copied simulacra and artifacts of knowledge or insight) experiences in the same way. We become interesting in living experiences in a way that radically enhances and nurtures not only our intelligence, but our inherent transentience. In this way, as we organize living interest together, our minds entangle, and we learn —underneath— the surfaces and structures of the informantion and enthusiasms we exchange.

I do not think you understand how impossibly astonishing this is. The reason I do not think this is that when I actually demonstrate it to people, directly, they are not only shocked, they experience a revolution in their minds. Almost immediately. And then, they wonder why this was not happening all the time. The reason was simple: copies of knowledge were stacked in the door to learning seven feet deep. Nothing was getting through. When I punch a hole in that? The thing behind has two familiar characteristics: prodigy and youthful wonder.

Retrieve them. I’ll help. Now.