[00:00.000] 作词 : Holly Herndon
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Holly Herndon
[00:06.98]The last question was asked for the first time when we stepped into the light.
[00:12.67]Just before then, it was wild.
[00:16.55]Microbes still swarmed through our body, those minds inside us, and crawling at our feet, exerting their weird controls.
[00:27.56]We always knew they were there but didn't really understand them.
[00:34.39]We couldn't see them, but they were watching over us the whole time.
[00:38.30]If we listened carefully, we could hear these little rulers in our gut.
[00:46.20]They worked together, naturally decentralized.
[00:51.09]Their form was spread out, unlike ours used to be.
[00:55.26]They knew how to get us to spread their families,
[01:00.02]making us sneeze,
[01:01.52]or cough, or rub our nose,
[01:04.30]or even give a kiss.
[01:07.00]Thriving in extreme conditions, they proved to be more fit, better at taking the next leap.
[01:15.81]There was no doubt they could travel through space,
[01:18.50]distributed by meteoroids,
[01:20.90]asteroids, comets, planetoids, and spacecraft.
[01:25.26]They might carry something of us as a parasite to the future.
[01:30.17]Here at the edge of the world, we're calling you to join us, Ancestor-Plus.
[01:37.28]In the communion of open pores, existence is no longer enclosed in the body.
[01:43.37]We are not a collection of individuals, but a macro-organism, living as an ecosystem.
[01:50.80]We are completely outside ourselves, and the world is completely inside us.
[01:57.34]Is this how it feels to become the mother of the next species,
[02:03.58]to love them more than we love ourselves, like an extremophile?
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