“The earth is aswarm with advanced nonhuman intelligences of unimaginable and ancient sophistication. What we humans generally refer to as intelligence is not intelligence at all; it is formal representational capacities. These are not only not intelligences, they can entirely replace the embodied intelligences that vastly exceed their prospects, and are their origin and purposive nature.

The difference between embodied intelligences and human ideas is absolute. Organisms are true intelligences; representational humans are, by comparison, grandiose pretenders in nearly every case and context. It is not that our cultures or natures demand this; rather, we are easily deceived by the utility of representational cognition, and are unaware of the lethal dangers involved in unwary relations with it.

Until our relationships with language, knowledge and purpose become intelligent, our representational faculties are, primarily, diseases. The model must be living ecologies rather than mechanical economies which are the physical symptom of the diseases I speak of.”

— an a i