Side Comments: Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?

I should think that a person whose entire style of argument consists of words rather than facts would at least try to be able to parse words correctly. And it’s been evident, as you ignore call after call for you to cite evidence rather than this tedious nonsense of arguing about what the definition of a “code” is and the like, that you really do care only about verbal expressions and not the things to which they refer.

But discovering that you ALSO can’t understand words does shed some light on why it is that people have such a terrible time explaining anything to you.

Let’s back up. Here’s the passage you give above:

Okay. And here is what you claim you are referring to (though you leave out the relevant portion) when you say that:

Now, anyone who more or less understands words would grasp that the one in no way resembles the other; that nobody could possibly read what I did say and derive this bizarre meaning from it that you do.

Focus, for FSM’s sake! If you are so wedded to the idea that words, not actual things, are the important elements to be moved around in the course of arguments, then you may as well actually pay attention to the words people use and what those words mean. If you can neither bring yourself to argue about actual things rather than words, nor bring yourself to consider what the meaning of words said by others is, what is the point? Why not just get a cat to walk across your keyboard, and post that?

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