Communication seems like such an impossible task sometimes. Language, or at least our use of it, seems pointless and dysfunctional. Subjectivity reigns in our attempt to exchange ideas, raw experience. Perhaps this is part of the attraction that art and science hold for us? Art embraces ambiguity , either through rejection or propagation, and science attempts to precisely quantify what we do not know. Still, it often seems that we are capable of nothing more than speaking in falsehoods and widening the gulf that exists between the numerous intelligent agents we believe we
interact with everyday. Eh...I guess our use of language routinely fails us but on occasion the environmental component of language and our small wet computers agree to speak to each other and a measure of clarity can be achieved, however infrequently.
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