The mind is distributed throughout the body,
as metabolic, genetic, hormonal, immune, neural
communication between organs, tissues, cells,
organelles, nuclei and molecules. At all levels.
Mind permeates the body,
like ether was supposed to pervade all matter,
like neutrinos interpenetrate the Earth,
like language links human society worldwide
through the spoken, written, printed, electronic word.

Disembodied, non-incarnated mind,
free-floating, may also exist,
like Plato’s Ideas of chairs and objects,
like heavenly eternal archetypes,
like patterns of beauty in an artist’s mind
before they are expressed in stone or pigment
or the vibrations of a string.

EXPRESSED! Like genes switched on
to incarnate their protein products
by material processes, EXPRESSING
the abstract Platonic ideas already fully present,
implicitly pre-formed like a Homunculus
in codon language. “Parlez-vous DNA?”
We are learning, but not yet fluent,
in the language of the other culture-mind.

Implicit, immanent, implicate order
unfolding into explicit, created order:
wave crystallizing into particle,
DNA into protein,
thought into action,
The Word (Logos) that ruled the World
from the Big Bang onward
and before, in the Guv of Universes.