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> Didn’t claim it was

I was afraid that would happen. My comment was really more aimed at being a comment to yours, than a reply. The fact that you're starting to "feel" this as being more true is not negated or impacted by it being an existing thought. Thoughts like this take time to settle into experienced truth, and i appreciate that. Had we been conversing that would have been a non-sequitur, and i would not have made it.

One of the problems with comment systems though is that we are at once conversing and broadcasting. The comment was more intended on being a broadcast than a direct reply to you, as a breadcrumb for anyone interested in the path you were taking to maybe seek it out in existing literature.



Comment system dynamics are partly to blame, but I would add that human nature incentivizes defensiveness.

Once one mostly outgrows it, things are much easier and less tense. Even if a discussion dynamic increases the probability for defensiveness.

Ego is the enemy.


I don’t understand all this thinking when some minor editing would have made confusion much less likely.

> > This isn't really a new thought.

Dropping this still leaves the whole intended meaning of the comment intact. That it isn’t a “new thought” is clearly inferred by “meant to terms like”.

Or even just dropping “really”, which in this case looks like a discourse marker.




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