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Went to a medical conference yesterday. These people are busy telling each other that statistics and graphs are the kettle of final truth.

:- Doug.

All of this does not mean we ignore objects or quantities or measuring or structures; rather that our primary stance and point of view is from these larger.

:- Doug.

There was something I was exploring as I was awakening, and it extends my thinking about persons. What was it? I will get back there and beyond.

:- Doug.

Conversation may be the world metaphor for which we have been searching: it carries us beyond and deeper than web and network metaphors. It is more dynamic.

:- Doug.

Crisis is life and death choice point. There is a third choice, not seen as we face the choice: transformation. Life in new form, life after life.

:- Doug.

Reality is relatity.

:- Doug.

Don’t be afraid. Other people are not apart from you. They are a part of you. We are in profound territory.

:- Doug.

Advance Directives: If, then. POST: If, now.

:- Doug.

We do not have relationships: we are relating. Not complicated: complex. Fractal. Dynamic. In motion.

:- Doug.

God: colon: opening.

:- Doug.

God as metaphor: evocative.

:- Doug.

One. Conversation.

:- Doug.

I own this. I start the conversation.

:- Doug.

The world is clockwork, the world is machine, is web, is field, system, network, cloud, conversation. Metaphors and metonymy serve to enlighten, to stretch, hopefully to make us bigger.

:- Doug.

I sit at the luncheon table during the conference, engaged in conversation with the man to my right. I am aware of the two women and a man to my left involved in another conversation. The other three people are conversing but I do not catch much of it except when we introduce ourselves. The world conversation is fractal to this.

:- Doug.

The fact that we’re not seeing something may simply mean that we’re not seeing, not that it does not happen.

:- Doug.

Time is relative in age. Visits to years ago may take seconds in others’ clock time and months in subjective time.

:- Doug.

Time is relative in age. Visits to years ago may take seconds in others’ clock time and months in subjective time.

:- Doug.

Our spatial aspect makes us appear as objects with mass and our time aspect as processes involving equivalent energy. Our matter and activity cannot be separated: they are facets of the same reality. This is equally true of old-old people.

:- Doug.

The further we advance into persons the more activity (conversation) among them we discover. The closer we look the more restless and dynamic the picture. People cannot be separated from their correlations. The more we confine them (such as in shrinking brains in dementia, or shrinking worlds as in nursing homes) the more restless they become.

:- Doug.

The main conversation has to happen in the family. If the doctor has had a conversation with the patient, and then the family are the only ones conscious, things can get turned around. So doctors should be encouraging the conversation to go more deeply in the family.

:- Doug.

People can take truth if it’s not sugar coated. The even become hopeful. We do not know the essence of their hope. Maybe it is not to become free of disease. Maybe it is to hug their children one last time. Maybe it is to have a good death, whatever they might choose that to mean.

:- Doug.

Assimilation is the job of living conversation. To converse is to assimilate, to take in and absorb the other, being of being.

:- Doug.