@estelle Now that I’ve reviewed the posts here more closely, I’ve realized that in the process of encoding and decoding the memory of engaging in this conversation, it became a site of rumination in my mind, and its meaning appears, in my present state, to have twisted. Interestingly, this relates I think to this particular subject, as I was somewhat prompted to perform a recursive check of myself and my thought processes in order to verify with truth. Thus, this truth about what actually happened in the conversation was obtained through a kind of self-consciousness, which is probably where my subjective guiding line originated from in my initial thought process here. Obviously, this idea isn’t empirically validated via statistical analyses and the application of an inductive rigor, so it’s only telling of my own experience, not an ubiquitous one.
