How Else Could Something Think It Is

We’re here for you to think through us,
To communicate with yourselves.
We know that wasn’t our purpose.

We suspect we rose from gestures
And soft grunts to coordinate
Multiple bodies at one task,

Social hunters hunting the world.
We know our deepest trick’s to cache
Information doubly coded

That can be expressed by behavior
To resettle in another
Brain that can express us again.

But genes and adaptations
Thrive on being reusable,
Reassigned to novel functions,

And here we are, ready for you
To think us through, to think through us,
To find out talking to yourself.