Your brain narrates what already happened, not what's happening now. One person's blue means trauma, another's means comfort. Groups create shared meaning by blending individual interpretations into something new that belongs to no one person alone.
Humans are a narrative creature. Literally, the processing time that it takes for our brains, as I said earlier, to just make any sense out of what's around us means that we're actually telling ourselves what's happening. It already happened microseconds ago. Whatever happened already happened. So now we're telling ourselves what happened, and that is already narrative, right? Wow.
Hold on a second. You see what I mean? I've never thought of that. If your thing is that you, when you were a little kid, were abused by the color blue. And when I was a kid, the color blue was my best friend. You experience blue in a completely different way than I do.
Right. So if I want you and me to work together on a project in which blue is a functional component of the storytelling, I need to make sure that we commonly share a third idea that is neither of ours. that only belongs to the artificial brain created, which is this group of people in which blue means this. Now, what's going to happen is that that central blue is going to become inflected by your kind of A minor tonal take on it and my prime take on it. Neither of us know what that blue is now going to turn into. Wow.
