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Gregory Bateson is making a point in my current reading that ideas are really differences; so is communication; so is learning; so is change. Therefore, so is conversation: I extend the logic. Everything we are doing in conversation, whether to show how we are of the same tribe or to convey an idea, is to change the other’s concept of us, or of something else in the world of things or ideas. So is conversation change, difference? I like to think in terms of difference rather than change. Conversation is ideally mutual change, and eating together of words and ideas and imbibing one another.

:- Doug.

It is my energy and I want your energy to run along with mine in its same direction toward the same end. That’s why I converse. The difference that makes a difference is in the coin of energy released.

:- Doug

Conversation might be considered an important component of small group, societal, and larger ecosystems, and how they interlace.

:- Doug.

What is the difference that makes a difference in conversation?

:- Doug.