“In most cases of people actually talking to one another, human communication cannot be reduced to information. The message not only involves, it is, a relationship between speaker and hearer. The medium in which the message is embedded is immensely complex, infinitely more than a code: it is a language, a function of a society, a culture, in which the language, the speaker, and the hearer are all embedded.

Live, face-to-face human communication is intersubjective…It is not stimulus-response at all, not a mechanical alternation of precoded sending and receiving…It is a continuous interchange between two consciousnesses. Instead of an alternation of roles …between active subject and passive object, it is a continuous intersubjectivity that goes both ways all the time.”

Ursula K. Le Guin in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination