I'll have to think about how best to do this. Part I is a bit of a grab-bag, trying to rapidly reset our assumptions about intelligence and agenthood before Part II begins supplying the Official Arguments and Definitions. (Replacing the current frame with one that makes more sense is also an option.)

This is some of why I asked about inferential gaps; how would y'all walk through or supplement some of the transitions to a reader? Knowing what you'd do differently, or additionally, will also tell me things about what you see as the function of each component post.