Kortiko
Kortiko is a fictional entity featured in the 1987 science fiction novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan. Within the narrative, Kortiko represents the collective consciousness or the guiding intelligence of an alien civilization encountered by humanity. It is not depicted as a single, physical being but rather as a unified network of minds or a distributed intelligence that spans vast distances and time.
The purpose of Kortiko in the story is to facilitate communication and understanding between different species
Sagan uses Kortiko to explore themes of universal interconnectedness, the potential for peaceful interspecies relations, and