LOL-- so glad that our stream-of-consciousness seagulls-and-Borg analogy made sense to someone else.

This is often the sort of thinking that makes other people decide that we're freaks. blush

Zen Scanner, I love that idea. Do you think that all people have the innate capacity to learn those things as children? I wonder, given what I've seen of the ability of adults to absorb and utilize those meta-skills. It's really aggravating sometimes.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.