musings on interesting ideas

When one person tries to communicate with another person, they take an idea in their head, turn it into language and speak that language to the other person. The other person hears the words and translates those words into ideas in their own head.

One of the challenges in this process is that words mean different things to different people and have different associations. Another challenge is that each person’s view of the world is different.

So this process leads to much confusion and misunderstanding.

How would it be possible to get into another person’s head? Or how would it be possible to get an idea across to another person clearly and unambiguously?

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