“over a thousand of them formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

— Dwarkesh Patel, www.dwarkesh.com

“We are all holobionts: basket-beings holding other beings, complex inter-species ecosystems pretending at singular selfhood.”

— Sophie Strand, sophiestrand.substack.com