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We might not even be communicating.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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So you mean to say: we personalize interpretation of someone else's writing, therefore we're rather responding to our own thoughts, than in response to the other's writing? If so, I would say this is true for the majority of people; especially when discussing anything political for example, where a strong bias is present.
Yes, this is pretty much exactly what happens. It's the map-territory problem, but with every single word. We have rough agreements on what some words mean. Easy enough with what we take to be solid objects. This X is a cross, like two objects intersecting. Yes, we know what X is. Okay, now do the same thing to every word in this sentence. And then again to every word in this sentence. Oh... how about subjective experiences? Love. Sadness. What are those? How did you come to think of those words when describing love? Were you born with language? You don't inherently know what anything is. You just have a bunch of code in your head.
Yeah, if you really start breaking down sentences, to their individual words and their respective concepts, everything falls apart. But it's important to keep context in mind: which generally limits room for interpretation enough, for most to roughly interpret them similarly (unless your autistic brain makes you go on a detour...). If you start formulating your wording carefully enough, you can start writing legal documents; and ironically make sure, 99% of the population, can no longer follow a word you're saying.
Yes.
Yes.
Go on. Read that again. Or write that again, slowly.