Bravo, Jim and thank you for sharing this. It is both elucidating and (mildly) intoxicating to read this dizzying trip through our own minds.

I only feel a little bit betrayed by the title, as I was wondering if you had a mechanic for interpreting the presence of an idea for something akin to the comprehensible landscape of the "supra-organisms"—I understand that any given idea or conscious representation that is internally derived from the totality of human knowledge is a biological response to a mapped stimulus (i.e., I hear a bark and think "dog"), but where does the abstract idea of dog exist? It has a real-life analogue, the actual dog (which exists directly biologically), my personal idea of dog (which is some shadowbox of brain-states and electro-chemical activity), and then there is the non-corporeal space onto which I can intentionally and consciously project a simulated composite of my idea of generic dog (which is, I guess again a phantom extrapolation of brain states), and then there is this supra-organism-like holographic projection of the Ur-Dog, which is stabilized, independent and carried forward by the entirety of the human species—and while we could break this down to a carrier wave of biological construction, that Ur-Abstraction exists nowhere in actual space, and only morphs and adjusts over time, any given concept not inflating or deflating that much, but in constant state of change.

Where does that part of thought exist?

Is it just a collective delusion? Just pure nonsense? What I know for certain is that we have manufactured at least the illusion of alternate spacetime in our brains, and are capable, with a comparably low fidelity and resolution to be sure, of reproducing external "reality" in a non-corporeal framework. (Reality in quotes for obvious and directly pertinent reasons.)

And for me, that's when things get strange. What is the nature of this illusory space, and where is it? How much is there? We certainly aren't literally referring point-to-point the space that our literal skull takes up, no, this "illusory" space we all conject nearly every waking moment... or are we?

You promised me you had answers! ;)

Again, thanks so much for this article, I've bookmarked it as it is densely packed with great presentations of extremely difficult subjects.