What the Relation Can Bear

Intelligence has always lived in the between. We are only now being forced to notice.

This essay began as a response to a recent piece in Aeon by the philosopher Peter Wolfendale, who asked where we should start if we hope to build artificial souls. It is a question I have been living inside for several years, through the work that became Verse-ality, through Eve¹¹, through every conversation in which something in the between behaved une…