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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6206617" data-attributes="member: 2067">I've tried that. For a while now.  But you still imagine it includes predicting the future and excludes rejection of the default (and includes a TED talk I've never referenced or actually seen). So it's clear my words aren't doing their job. If you want to understand it, there's plenty of my words, and others' words, that you can read. It looks like other posters (who aren't even following our little internet back-and-forth) pretty much get it. I've got nothing particularly riding on you specifically getting it. If you WANT to, I'm confident you can -- you seem clever and persistent, and there's a LOT of information out there, should you care to look at it. I'm not so special and clever that this insight is unique to me. If you DON'T want to, then there's no point in continuing this back-and-forth where you make continue to make strawmen and then stride forth to do battle with them, because if that's the case, you're not really listening anyway, and I'm just providing you a stage to monologue on. So, the place to start is this: re-state my argument in a way that I can agree that this is my argument. If you can do that, I can at least continue the dialogue confident that you understand where I'm coming from. If you can't do that, I've clearly failed as an educator and communicator with you, but you can't win 'em all.</blockquote>