It arises ultimately from our fears about the fragility of embodied life. For the past six years, I have been researching the latest evidence for how life and intelligence actually work. This represents a refusal of our remarkable living bodies on a global scale. When the self is imagined as mind or information, the living body becomes an inconvenience, a disposable support system. Meaning is not produced by raw information; it begins wherever a living body has something at stake.