Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.

  1. The words, how they’re arranged and such.

  2. The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.

99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what’s going on here is you talking to yourself.

  • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Each word is an idea, and each idea already exists in your head. What I’m doing isn’t giving you new ideas, but arranging the ideas to get across a meaning.

    It’s like rock gardens. I didn’t make the rocks, but I order them how I like, and I can make a smiley face out of them. I can share my arrangement, and they can try to make it with their rocks. It won’t be the same smiley face, but it’s still a smiley face, and that’s all that matters.

    And if there’s a rock in your garden that’s just a little TOO different to the one in mine, maybe the smiley face won’t look right. It happens. If it matters, we can try to move some rocks around and get the right arrangement for the both of us.