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I totally agree with this post (and the ability to convey such an idea in a few paragraphs is refreshing).

Basically, your mind is like a map of ideas created out of all of your experiences. Trying to describe a specific idea in that map with someone else is basically taking two different ideas and merging them. Both the describer and listen will end up changing their map: the idea.

Really hard stuff to do.



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