Dialogue

When we enter a dialogue, we submit to each other a constructed, self-contained body of logic for each-other to operate within. We are encouraged to operate within a peer’s offered body of logic, and in a healthy reciprocal conversation, we construct a new body of logic in turn for the other person to consider and base their construction on, and so on. This can break down when one of the conversationalists insists on maintaining their own framework, though some frameworks can be better than others, and if both in the dialogue recognize this, the conversation can move forward.

But our pleasure out of a conversation, and our willingness to extend a conversation, depends on whether the participants not only allow each other space to advance their own opinion, but whether each interfaces with the submitted opinion. So we gain pleasure out of not only creating, but having others interact with our creations and experiencing others creations in turn.