https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ33gAyhg2c The magic and mystery of writing, as well as reading and "getting what was intended" are more than what I have suggested thus far. I have asserted that what I experience I want you to experience also--in the same way with the sameness that I can be assured of with my careful scribblings. It doesn't work exactly this way, and because of this writing is not a description of what it is like for me that you can have but a description of what something akin to what I experience is like for you. These are not the same. Douglas Hofstadter in his essay "Analogy as the Core of Cognition" ( http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html ) succinctly summarizes this magic and mystery when he talks about "just adding water." The usual goal of communication is, of course, to set up “the same thought” in the receiver's brain as is currently taking place in the sender's brain. The mode by wh...
there is only the active 'discussion' with that-which-is