communication

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring braings, and thanks to global communication, in far distant foreign brains. And they also interact with the external surroundings to produce in toto a burstwise advance in evolution that is far beyond anything to hit the evolutionary scene yet...