Communication is a tricky thing. I write this, here, and it means one thing to me. What does it mean to you? Do the words I say ring the same bell in my head they ring in yours? How would I know? How would you know? This question isn't exactly a new one, but just stop and think about it for a momement.

When you say 'blue', what color do you see in your mind? Is it the same color the person next to you sees? How much of what we think we say to others falls short of what we intend to say; what we think we meant? I mean, when it comes right down to it, in a world without a means of verifying for absolute certain that your concept is being communicated with absolute clarity and fidelity, you're forced to rely on the assumption that other people understand you by their responses, by their actions. You're forced to assume they think the same way they do, or it all becomes meaningless, and you may as well be talking to trees.

What if it's not true, though? What if you say blue, and I see the color you think of as purple? What if you say 'honesty', and it doesn't mean the same thing to me, as it does to you? Do we still communicate? Or are we only fooling ourselves because the response is close enough? Prove me wrong. Prove that these words mean exactly the same thing to you as they do to me. Prove that your brain is wired the same as mine, and your thoughts are not alien, incomprehensible things that, by pure chance, generate an acceptable response. How can you? How, then, can you ever TRULY believe communication exists? We merely assume that it does, as I assume this will mean anything to anyone.