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The dictionary makes clear a suspicious nature of code. Words are encoded with words; all refer to each other in a net that aims to fix meaning. When I talk about things of the real world (objects, people) does not seem to be conflict, but when I try to meant sensations, feelings or abstract entities with no referent, meaning moves from the world outside to the subject inside, in an unspecified space which only I can access. Although each subject built individually their meanings, there seems to be a general consensus that enables communication. Indeed, how corroborate the meanings between subjects? Do you really understand what I say? Better still: what you understand of what I say, is the same thing that I understand of what I say?
The dictionary makes clear a suspicious nature of code. Words are encoded with words; all refer to each other in a net that aims to fix meaning. When I talk about things of the real world (objects, people) does not seem to be conflict, but when I try to meant sensations, feelings or abstract entities with no referent, meaning moves from the world outside to the subject inside, in an unspecified space which only I can access. Although each subject built individually their meanings, there seems to be a general consensus that enables communication. Indeed, how corroborate the meanings between subjects? Do you really understand what I say? Better still: what you understand of what I say, is the same thing that I understand of what I say?