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Comment author: David_Gerard 13 April 2011 02:37:31PM *  2 points [-]

Incommensurate thoughts: People with different life-experiences are literally incapable of understanding each other, because they compress information differently.

FWIW, this is one of the problems postmodernism attempts to address: the bit that's a series of exercises in getting into other people's heads to read a given text.

Comment author: Jade 20 August 2012 03:46:51PM *  1 point [-]

Does it work for understanding non-human peoples?