![People see skin as the shoreline of our identity. You are water. I am land. It’s a convincing argument. I see you over there and I am right here. The visual borders seem conclusive just as they do in the picture above.
But I can hear you. The vibrations that emanate from your body literally resonate through space and travel into my head. Your scent travels far beyond the physical outlines of your skin. In fact, I can feel your presence even before I have cognitive evidence that you are in the same room.
Beyond the senses, you exist in my memory. Even when you are not here I can recreate you, remember you and even imagine you here. You don’t end where the epidermal layer of your skin meets the air around you; you only end when I’m not conscious of you here.
[photo: G1 cell-photo]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koun8zlfI61qzzio5o1_500.jpg)
People see skin as the shoreline of our identity. You are water. I am land. It’s a convincing argument. I see you over there and I am right here. The visual borders seem conclusive just as they do in the picture above.
But I can hear you. The vibrations that emanate from your body literally resonate through space and travel into my head. Your scent travels far beyond the physical outlines of your skin. In fact, I can feel your presence even before I have cognitive evidence that you are in the same room.
Beyond the senses, you exist in my memory. Even when you are not here I can recreate you, remember you and even imagine you here. You don’t end where the epidermal layer of your skin meets the air around you; you only end when I’m not conscious of you here.
[photo: G1 cell-photo]
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