The discovery of the incredible power, memory, and diversity of the human immune systems should have led us to radical new understandings relating to our own cognition: because it is as if the physical circumstances of our immune system illuminate the structure, character, and activity of our minds.

Mimicry and invasion. Dominance and rejection. If only we could see that our minds are like our bodies in many important and useful senses: they come under attack by extremely aggressive forces, the goals of which involve domination, conversion to resource, and essentially open parasitism.

Most of what we call our thinking minds are cooperatively developed cognitive structures whose quasi-parasitic functions thrive by invading, subduing, dominating, and controlling us. In simple terms: much of what we believe to be our minds are usefully comparable cities built of, for, and by peculiar form of idea that is relationally parasitic. Think: bad mind coral.

So I suggest that you learn everything you can about our immune systems from science. Learn about each of the different elements, and how they function together… the macrophage, the helper-T, the memory systems…

Then take that knowledge and begin to metaphy the processes of your own intelligence through the metaphors provided by immunology. Model the processes of language, thought, and understanding… and then see how mimetic predators attack, replace, and re-engineer these processes for their own purposes.

In our bodies we have an immune system.

We must now develop one together… for our minds. Particularly the distributed minds we generate and express as distinct human cultures.