Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.
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The words, how they’re arranged and such.
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The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.
99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what’s going on here is you talking to yourself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_language_argument Tangential but still