“It is not so much that we have or posses minds as it is that we sustain and develop methods of assembling mind-like symmetries in relation to specific situations, ideas, and activities. That is to say, that the mindspace is not so much my own as it is the stage upon which relation occurs and is understood and / or simulated within me.

This means our choices invoke possible minds which we become the likenesses of. These assemble themselves according to our choices, our habits, and our goals. Our minds take on the likeness of the character of our approaches to relation, and we become the cognitive and physical vehicle of that mind’s enactment, so to speak. We become the minds our choices invoke.

But we are told we ‘have’ a mind, and so, I think, we try to. This is like a bird trying desperately to have a feather. Or a gorilla attempting to have a hair.

Clearly, what we ‘have’ is not much like possessing a mind, but like particpating in a fluid dynamism of metaminds — which has catastrophically confused itself with a can-be-possessed (singular) specific mind. And that, my friend, may well be possession, or even confusion — but it is not yet a mind.”

— an anonymous informant