The Difference Between a Tornado and a Mobster

The difference between a tornado and the mob is, the affordance of air molecules for engaging in cognition in a meaningful way is quite small. And so we may ascribe to the mob a level of cognition that is not properly happeninga the mob. The demonic is actually a case where there's a degradation of the hyper agency into parasitic processing. But because the these are functional tive agents, there's a substantial amount of activity that’s going on that looks like it could infect is cognition. So really looking closely at what was going on inside that gap gives us a lot of insight. Effected, by the way, it may be like a ten thousand year long odynamic process

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