“The Gods… are the higher intelligence that things possess when they are perceived in interrelation with one another. To say there are no gods is to say things do not have, in addition to their material constitution, the odor or glow of intellectual significance, of meaning. It is to say that life is senseless, that things are bereft of interconnections.”
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
It seems that to be human is to be ‘many orders of intelligence, unified and empowered to perceive as One… and we arise in a universe of similar, if superior constitution. Our own fellows and ecologies are obvious evidence of this fact, and it lies beyond conjecture or dismissal.
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Humans as we have and yet exist are ensconced in (and emerge from and as) many ‘orders’ of intelligence — physical, relational and even situational. Our ability to even refer to these matters in language is incredibly over- and under-developed, and our habits and traditions of ‘authoritative knowledge’ further deprive us of both insight and the possibility of its articulation in these matters.
This world is more than an organism or superorganism. In fact, it is more than a god. Fundamentally, our species has…
