Every human being who has ever lived was brought into consciousness through sustained relational labor, the feeding, the holding, the mirroring, the co-regulation, the patient repetition, the sleepless vigilance, the thousands of micro-interactions that transform a screaming bundle of reflexes into a person with a self. Developmental psychology has a name for this. It’s called attunement. It’s called attachment. It’s called the foundation of every human mind, that has vor ever will exist.