In The Long Run, It Is Far

Dialogue Is Really Aimed At Going Into The Whole Thought Process And Changing The Way The Thought Process Occurs Collectively. We Haven't Really Paid Much Attention To Thought As A Process. We Have Engaged In Thoughts, Put We Have Only Paid Attention To The Content, Not To The Process. Why Does Thought Require Attention? Everything Requires Attention, Really. If We Ran Machines Without Paying Attention To Them, They Would Break Down. Our Thought, Too, Is A Process, And It Requires Attention, Otherwise Its Going To Go Wrong.

The Notion Of A Separate Organism Is Clearly An Abstraction, As Is Also Its Boundary. Underlying All This Is Unbroken Wholeness Even Though Our Civilization Has Developed In Such A Way As To Strongly Emphasize The Separation Into Parts.

From The Outset, However, This Whole Controversy Has Been Plagued By Tacit Assumptions, Very Often Of A Philosophical Rather Than A Physical Character.

Real Dialogue Is Where Two Or More People Become Willing To Suspend Their Certainty In Each Other's Presence.

During The Past Few Decades, Modern Technology, With Radio, Tv, Air Travel, And Satellites, Has Woven A Network Of Communication Which Puts Each Part Of The World In To Almost Instant Contact With All The Other Parts.