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We may be in a conversation bigger than we recognize.

:- Doug.

There is a conversation which is longer and broader than we notice—it could be within our ken if we attended. The bees and the flowers have changed the colors and probably other aspects of each other over centuries. Different species have combined intricately to make lichens. We carry in our bodies other living beings to make up our microbiome. All this did not happen yesterday, but over millennia. Some conversations are so slow we miss them. Some conversations are so quick we miss them. The only thing ours has going is that it is the right speed for us to participate.

:- Doug.

This all is turning a corner: life is the hidden name of conversation. Our task is to expand and extend life, to stretch, to make bigger. We engender life not merely through bodies coming together, but through notions trading genes. Notions can come from all of life, all the thousands of species, not limited to one full of itself, but lacking hair and claws and roots.

:- Doug.

I may have a far too small idea of conversation. It’s office may be out beyond humanity. It may be to extend and expand the work of life.

:- Doug.

I’m studying something that has never before been studied: how do I touch your imagination with it?

:- Doug.