"What is madness?"
"One could argue that madness occurs when our fragile minds break as we witness an incomprehensible event..."
"But an ant doesn't start babbling when it sees a circuit board."
"They'll find it strange, sure. As to them, it is just a landscape of strange angles and shapes."
"They may be scared, but that is not what one would call madness."
"Madness is when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does."
"When it suddenly understands that the markings on a circuit board are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex..."
"The ant will then understand that it can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has ever seen before."
"It will suddenly know of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts that were unimaginable before that moment, and then... it's an ant again."
"Memories of things it cannot comprehend will stay in its mind."
"It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it will continue to remember it."
