“We have the wrong idea about what a mind is, but it can be corrected through retraining. A mind is not possessed locally, though the local transcognitive element has its own character and state and such… but it is not properly mind. Mind organizes itself in response and relation with a living field and select clusters of participants. In this sense, we can share data across time or space instantaneously, but it is not because it is ‘being sent or received’, even though this metaphor is convenient and familiar. No, it is neither being sent or received. It is being participated in. Shared. As a single mind with endlessly (infinitely) diverse internality. This is really what communication is about, and the less we form a shared mind the less we understand each other. I believe it is our nature to learn and establish distributed mindedness.

What I want to be clear about is this: we assemble minds across distance, and I believe our species has astonishing capacities in this regard which we have neither imagined nor explored. Exploring them begins with releasing our stranglehold on the definitions we’ve been scripted to become, and to freely and openly explore together what is actually possible. You see, before there were telephones… there were other ways. They involved living networks, and we were experts at traversing, relating with and inhabiting them. Now the networks are in peril and the old experts must awaken their heroes.

This is the call. You’ve heard it before.

Remember?”

— an anonymous informant