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Good conversation brings forth the breath of life.

:- Doug.

Rather than something to be won
Conversation is a friendly undertaking

:- Doug.

Complexity is a way to intensify life; complication might kill.

:- Doug.

We work toward liking what we are saying.

:- Doug.

We cannot predict what will come out of this talking.

:- Doug.

The conversation pulls us in, wants our contribution.

:- Doug.

There is welcome when we enter the circle.

:- Doug.

These are friends, even the strangers.

:- Doug.

Conversation is bliss.

:- Douig.

Communication according to Humberto Maturana is primarily a coordination of behavior. Here perhaps he comes close to bridging the gap between communication and conversation. One step further seems to be that in conversation we think together. We decide what behavior to coordinate; we also decide to decide. We dance and we make the music.

:- Doug.

Evidently we can have a conversation not just with players in front of us: also with our memories, our thoughts and thinking, and players we make up. Consider the well-known “imaginary friends” of childhood, and perhaps other ages.

:- Doug.

How could withdrawing from conversation and from being among others be a form of conversation? Does that mean we cannot not converse? How open do we need to be? How do we open—ourselves and others? Open to others and to other paradigms?

:- Doug.

What is the role of boredom and mind wandering in conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversation is cognition
cognition conversation
inseparable
What do we do
with that?

:- Doug.

This theory, of conversation as process of living, extends the Santiago theory of cognition, recognizing the intertwining of cognition and conversation as essence of and necessary to living. It works to further overcome the separation of mind and matter, to show the unity of all living.

:- Doug.

A person is beyond a machine, a process of conversation.

:- Doug.

To live is to converse.

:- Doug.

What is the feeling of a good conversation?

:- Doug.

Conversation is the essence of being alive.

:- Doug.

The dream of conversation

:- Doug.

To say that something like caring for my sister and her well-being is a goal is to hold it small, a baseball to be tossed around and caught and put on a shelf and be done with as we grow older.

:- Doug.

You will find here no definition of conversation, no limits on what it might mean. You are invited to feel for yourself as we go whether the breadth and depth and width I express are your own: or would you go further, or constrict the lines drawn here?

:- Doug.

Unfolding Conversation

:- Doug.