For example, if I talk about “magic”, most of you will tell me I’m wrong without even asking me what I mean. You might even insult me.
How common is this? How much of this conversation is actual communication vs just a string of triggering phrases that we react to?
How much of Lemmy is people just barking at their own echo?
Welcome to literally all human communication
Damn good point. But, we’re taking about purely linguistic communication.
When you read a word, the meaning associated with it comes from you. Yes there is meaning in the arrangement of the words, but the meaning of the words, from which, oh…98% of the meaning of a text is derived, comes from YOU.
So that’s like 98% you talking to your own echo.
So that’s quite different from more IRL type communication (where you have all this other nonsymbolic context and stuff)
That’s all I’ve got offhand.
And when you’ve got a million people doing that echo-talking, well, what’s that?
When discussing things based on a certain school of thought like Marxist dialectical materialism there is terminology we can use to more accurately convey our meaning, rather than the meaning coming from just our interpretation. I think there is plenty of good discussion here where people do listen to each other’s points rather than responding instinctively based on their bias. If you’re talking about something like magic or psychedelic experiences though, or religion, etc, things that are more subjective and less able to be rigorously studied, people will have a stronger bias, especially here where there is an emphasis on pure materialism.
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