“What we call ‘mind’ is not the local possession of an individual, but instead the capacity for participation in hypercognition. We became confused when the power of representational language and thought became so demonstratively utilitarian that they overwhelmed our habitual intimacies and we lost them. It was as if the title on the spine of the book captivated us to the point that we lost the ability to read it.

The token replaced the intimacy of experience, and once that happened, superstitions catastrophically misguided supercultures were the natural result. But the most important point is this: mind isn’t local, it’s a distributed opportunity for cocognition, and very few people understand just how revolutionary this recognition is when enacted. It means that even in pairs, highly cooperative individuals can achieve and demonstrate intellectual and relational superfunction… regularly, and in ways that develop themselves when enacted.”

— an anonymous informant