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Suppose We Were Able To Share Meanings Freely Without A Compulsive Urge To Impose Our View Or Conform To Those Of Others And Without Distortion And Self-deception. Would This Not Constitute A Real Revolution In Culture.

We Have Reversed The Usual Classical Notion That The Independent "elementary Parts" Of The World Are The Fundamental Reality, And That The Various Systems Are Merely Particular Contingent Forms And Arrangements Of These Parts. Rather, We Say That Inseparable Quantum Interconnectedness Of The Whole Universe Is The Fundamental Reality, And That Relatively Independent Behaving Parts Are Merely Particular And Contingent Forms Within This Whole.

Dialogue Is Really Aimed At Going Into The Whole Thought Process And Changing The Way The Thought Process Occurs Collectively. We Haven't Really Paid Much Attention To Thought As A Process. We Have Engaged In Thoughts, Put We Have Only Paid Attention To The Content, Not To The Process. Why Does Thought Require Attention? Everything Requires Attention, Really. If We Ran Machines Without Paying Attention To Them, They Would Break Down. Our Thought, Too, Is A Process, And It Requires Attention, Otherwise Its Going To Go Wrong.

If Each One Of Us Can Give Full Attention To What Is Actually ‘blocking’ Communication While He Is Also Attending Properly To The Content Of What Is Communicated, Then We May Be Able To Create Something New Between Us, Something Of Very Great Significance For Bringing To An End The At Present Insoluble Problems Of The Individual And Of Society.

Yet, In Spite Of This World-wide System Of Linkages, There Is, At This Very Moment, A General Feeling That Communication Is Breaking Down Everywhere, On An Unparalleled Scale.