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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
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Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of mutual understanding; and the possibility of being wholly misunderstood...
two people together can mutually phase-lock. Successful human relationship involves entrainment — getting in sync. If it doesn’t, the relationship is either uncomfortable or disastrous.... Consider deliberately sychronised actions like singing, chanting, rowing, marching, dancing, playing music...
When you can and do entrain, you are synchronising with the people you’re talking with, physically getting in time and tune with them... speech, Le Guin argues, is the most potent form of entrainment we humans have... utterance is magic.
two people together can mutually phase-lock. Successful human relationship involves entrainment — getting in sync. If it doesn’t, the relationship is either uncomfortable or disastrous.... Consider deliberately sychronised actions like singing, chanting, rowing, marching, dancing, playing music...
When you can and do entrain, you are synchronising with the people you’re talking with, physically getting in time and tune with them... speech, Le Guin argues, is the most potent form of entrainment we humans have... utterance is magic.
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