notes

The thoughts that move between us are difficult to see, their markings are confusing to the eye, not as clearly separated, ordered and defined as we might like. Even if we could see them we wouldn’t be able to understand what most of them are trying to communicate. Each adapted to live in or around somewhere in the landscape of human rooms, the corner of a mouth, beside a fruit bowl, around a cot. Each with its own very limited, highly specialised ability to sense, process and transmit information, what would they be showing? What would they be doing?

Mobile floating colonies of highly specialised cognitive agents each playing a piecemeal role in the collective production of thoughts, with some colonies building recognisable thoughts but most falling apart, building less recognisable structures that don’t quite hold together enough to get our attention. Some combine to produce recognisable imagery or speech, most put on displays and make sounds that make sense only to specific members of their species if they are close enough to see or hear.