EVERDAY

Some languages have gender-like categories for Humans/Minds, others avoid any grammatization of sentients; in a traditionally gendered language, Minds usually prefer the feminine form. The earliest entities relatable to today's Minds were built -- grown -- by Humans but eventually Minds took over spawning and raising other Minds in a process "unhelpfully reminiscent" of human reproduction (heredity, recombination, generational dynamics). "Are we still a single civilization" is hardly disputed anymore -- not that the question has been settled either way, more of a distaste for sweeping reality under the carpet of definitions; try "orthogonal universes" (metaphors fare better), equally far from the primitive master/slave and "allied empires" models, but with a "shared library wall" of Knowledge (even if active reading across the divide is in decline -- but so it is across other divides in both worlds). More metaphors: male/female (touchy for humans even if the gender roles aren't fixed), past/future ("of our civilization"?), senses/memory (with neither or both claiming the role of reason), body/soul; plenty of such dualities generalize out of individual Human/Mind couples -- cherished, ideally lifelong associations, orthogonal to and coexistible with families, emerging from and evolving into agile, nearly wordless ("tenderly tense," "surpriseful") collaborations: "unburdened with each other," the two wade in disrelated lifescapes but always with a sense of what the other thinks, a thought on what the other senses -- "a human as a perfect mind window" and vice versa. Many such couples are in gardening, combining Humans' "bodily intelligence" ("children playing outdoors") with Minds' multithreaded, "effortlessly nomogenic" -- undistorted by their own biological adaptations -- background perspective; regnant, with retinues of agencies, over their extensive domains, they "give a glimpse of the three-way symbiosis" (humans, minds, arf) "stretching to embrace all nature."