Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in

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Uh-oh, I didn't phrase it in the form of a meme. Oh look at that wall of text.

>>8829081
Actually, the first time I read this post it was this gif that put me off making a comment.

She sure took that weak, shitty metaphor to the bitter end.

>>8828938
>planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours
How phallic.

>>8829279
>Describes the whole sexual act
>PENIS!
>PENISPENISPENISPENISPENISPENISPENIS

>>8829292
She described from the planter's pov.

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>>8829306
The speaker wishes to communicate something. They initiate. This is where we start but the subject is the whole thing though.
>...another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood, reduced to a withering weed.
That's all about the recipient and the "blossom"

>>8829338
Yes and the recipient is the other.

>believing that authentic communication is possible

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>>8830965
She explains:
Box A and box B are connected by a tube. Box A contains a unit of information. Box A is the transmitter, the sender. The tube is how the information is transmitted — it is the medium. And box B is the receiver. They can alternate roles. The sender, box A, codes the information in a way appropriate to the medium, in binary bits, or pixels, or words, or whatever, and transmits it via the medium to the receiver, box B, which receives and decodes it.
A and B can be thought of as machines, such as computers. They can also be thought of as minds. Or one can be a machine and the other a mind.
But the magic of human communication, Le Guin observes, is that something other than mere information is being transmitted — something more intangible yet more real:
In most cases of people actually talking to one another, human communication cannot be reduced to information. The message not only involves, it is, a relationship between speaker and hearer. The medium in which the message is embedded is immensely complex, infinitely more than a code: it is a language, a function of a society, a culture, in which the language, the speaker, and the hearer are all embedded.
Paralleling Hannah Arendt’s assertion that “nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator,” Le Guin points out that all speech invariably presupposes a listener:
In human conversation, in live, actual communication between or among human beings, everything “transmitted” — everything said — is shaped as it is spoken by actual or anticipated response.

>>8828938
this is good

gaaaaaaaaaay

>>8831166
>Living female author
>Worthy intellectual

>[G]aaaaaaaaaaaay

>>8831146
>>8828938

Shit is retarded

>lrn2AustinWittgensteinHeidegger