magine a social model of the brain. I mentioned many times
   embodied cognition as my fav, which lately I've been thinking of
   as kind of social brain.

   You and i are communicating. However the communication occurs -
   in this case, over skinny wires with concepts encoded in words
   encoded in bits passed through thousands of miles of air and
   cables... _physically connecting_ "two or more" brains.

   I see energy as physical, the electrons as if basketball players
   catching and throwing little basketballs to each other quickly
   up and down the lines. [basketballs being photons].

   I also see Time as not so arrow-like. Hence, in _some fashion_
   we are connected physically - our brain wave patterns would be
   equally at home whether in a single mind or in several minds,
   each with a unique perspective and yet, still shared
   nonetheless.

   That's the power of conceptual sharing, however it is
   manifested.

   I think that's what makes "not feeling alone" with our thoughts
   so envigorating: We're really NOT alone once we share our
   thoughts; they're received and accepted/rejected/ignored - yet
   in some fashion, RESPONDED TO merely by the glancing at it.

   How powerful that is! Of course it might be an imaginary you
   (mini-Millard) that I'm communicating - the mini-Millard being
   the internal representation of Millard Melnyk that's in my mind
   - that I'm communicating with when I respond. Same in reverse.

   But no-less real, even if I am communicating with a symbolic
   representation of a person that *happens* to seem to resemble in
   reality the person I'm communicating with.

   Don't know if that makes sense. Words fail in certain areas.