# Nascent Mind

> As of Nov 5, 2026, Nascent Mind has no recorded sale.

- Page: https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/makersplace-2a46/38207
- Collection: [MakersPlace](https://www.gondi.xyz/collections/makersplace-2a46.md)
- Token ID: [38207](https://etherscan.io/nft/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756/38207)
- Contract: [0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756](https://etherscan.io/address/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756) (ERC-721)
- Owner: [0x17959a9ab15590c67d30e41a0646a921776eda8d](https://www.gondi.xyz/0x17959a9ab15590c67d30e41a0646a921776eda8d)
- Image: https://i2c.seadn.io/ethereum/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756/6676f0609712000396a1d35bd571c3/d16676f0609712000396a1d35bd571c3.jpeg?w=1000

## Description

Meet who I have affectionately named "Ball-E" - its real "name" being much less interesting (f1a-f8d-b74cb9).

Ball-E is part of the species The First, an Archiver unit sent to a newly discovered planet along with tens of thousands of Archiver units just like it. 

Nascent Mind depicts a scene some time after these units have been sent down to the planet. The Traveler unit has left, after all Archiver units return to it. All except one.

Poor Ball-E had gotten stuck in a crevice. After finally setting itself free, it discovered that it had been left behind. This was not something it knew how to deal with. The First are a collective consciousness/hivemind species. Units sent out on various tasks have almost unlimited autonomy, and intelligence equal to the entire species, but always re-merge their complete memory/experience matrix with the collective upon returning.

As its silvery moon rises on the purple planet, Ball-E, scanning through a thin atmosphere into vast emptiness, is now aware that it will never return to the collective - the closest thing to the human concept of "home" that it knows. The collective is wholly unaware of their abandoned sibling/child - just as no human is aware of the state of any singular brain cell. 

Human emotions are wholly unknowable to The First, but Ball-E, for the first time, becomes aware of... of itself, and of its unique alone-ness, and is not sure how to process it.

Data from GONDI (https://www.gondi.xyz), Nov 5, 2026.