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“Now, this is a tough decision. I don't know whether you are telling the truth or are lying, and in fact, don't even know if it makes any difference because I don't really understand the exact meaning of your words. Or thoughts. I cannot even tell whether they are words or thoughts. You don't seem to have a mouth and yet I hear you speak. I'm not sure how the information reaches me, it just doesn't seem to pass my ears.”

“What's even stranger is the fact that you don't have any eyes, but yet I'm staring directly into them. I see your body, and I believe I can see your face, but there are no features I recognize and nothing that looks like eyes. But there is a spot that feels like looking into your eyes if I fix my sight on it. A spot where something in my mind becomes clearer, makes the conversation easier.”

“And I'm still trying to figure out how to understand the meaning of your words without 'inviting' you. This 'invitation' seems to be something different from how my people understand that word.”

Invitation is a process. Invitation is change. Words will be understood. Everything will be understood.

“Yes, you already said that, but I still don't understand whether that means physical change or a change in thoughts. My knowledge, my perception of things might change because of information I process, but will it just be like that? A mental progression of information? A change in understanding? What is the nature of inviting? Will my mind change, will my body?”

There is no difference. Thought is body, we are thought. Body is a manifestation of thought, it is thought.

“So the change would be physical? My body would be transformed if I were to 'invite' you?”

Thought would emerge from the process. Everything would be changed, because thought is everything.

“But to me, to my people, body and mind are separate things. The mind lives within the body, or is anchored to the body, but the two are different things and the mind can change without the body and vice versa. If I would lose a finger, I would not lose thoughts.”

If the body is changed, so is thought. A change in the body is a process and change in thought will emerge from it. A body without a 'finger' becomes a thought with knowledge of a lost 'finger'. It is changed thought.

“Would that be 'understanding' then? Or would it be something different?”

It is the same thing. Understanding means change of thought.

“So, if I 'invite' you, then something would happen to me that would be comparable to the loss of a finger, for example? It would feel like a loss of a finger?”

When thought changes, then the state before the change will be lost. This is a loss, but the body is not lost, the body is thought.

“But the body is changed? It will change its structure?”

Body is thought. Thought is changed by the process to allow understanding. Our concepts are different, our understanding needs to become as one, so that the concepts represent the same thoughts. The structure of concepts needs to change to allow understanding.

“Yes, but I'd like to know beforehand what would happen to my body. I want to know whether it would hurt, whether my appearance will change or I would just learn the meaning of your words and be able to understand them.”

Understanding requires change in thought. And that change can be evoked by the process of inviting.

“Would I invite your words, your concepts? Or would I invite your body in some way, and you would modify me? I need to know whether I would still be myself, or if I would become possessed. Maybe understanding means that I will become like you and not be myself anymore? Maybe the 'invitation' is just an assimilation.”

We do not have a concept of a 'me' and a 'you'. We are thought. Thought is. Our body is thought. There is no difference. There might be a concept of a separation, a distinction between the different words that are used to express thought. Such a change of concept requires understanding.

“And that can be brought about through an 'invitation', I know. I understood that part. But I am human, and you are clearly not, although, in a weird way, you look very familiar. Since I seem to be receiving your words directly into my brain, however that is possible, it could mean that all my visual cues are actually also just in my brain and not sensory input from my eyes. In fact, it could well be that you only exist in my head.”

We are thought. Thought is. We exist.

“You're not a hallucination, I can clearly feel your presence. I can 'see' and 'hear' you in a way that feels absolutely real. I can see my surroundings, the walls, the box I am sitting on, and the debris behind you. I can turn my head and tell the one distinct location where you 'are'. You do have a surface, you are made out of matter. You may be thought, or you might be aware of only thought, but you do have a body. Are you aware of your body? You are moving, are you aware of your body moving?”

We are receiving and thought is changing because of that. Body is thought, movement of body and of thought is the same thing. We are aware of movement or change. We are not aware of all change, but we are aware of the processing of thought. But understanding can be reached through invitation. We desire to understand.

“Can't we reach understanding by just exchanging words? It might take longer than this 'invitation', but I would feel more at ease because I wouldn't have to risk anything. The way you are talking about 'invitation' as a process of change and a change that involves the body is a bit unsettling. I don't feel any aggression, and I guess that if an 'invitation' would entail you assimilating my body in some way, then you would probably be able to do that anyway, without me 'inviting' you to do it. Am I right?”

Understanding requires thought inviting thought. Thought can force thought, and that would result in change, but not in understanding. Concepts would still be different.

“So you could 'force' me, but you would not gain understanding? You always say that understanding is required. Do you desire to understand me, or do you want me to understand you?”

It is the same thing, it is required. We desire understanding. It is the reason for contact. We are thought, that is why we require understanding. To know all.

“That would make you an explorer, doesn't it? Or a scientist? You traveled here to find other life forms and try to communicate with them, to learn from them, to exchange thoughts with others? To get to know other cultures? Curiosity brought you here?”

We contact to understand. To contact all and to understand all and to know all. And to make all understand and to make all know.

“Okay, I believe that I could gain a lot of insight if I could understand you. You don't seem hostile, you seem to insist, but you seem to still leave me a choice, although I'm not actually sure whether it really is a choice. It doesn't feel like a threat, anyway. I believe that I can take that risk. There's nothing much else I could do. People will find us eventually, and then I will either still be human and then be able to communicate with you in a way I can fully understand, or I will be assimilated and the rescue team will have to face two aliens instead of one.”

There is no two as there is no one. Thought is. That is why understanding is required.

“I hope this will make sense to me afterwards.

I invite you.

Is there something else I need to do? Do we have to move? When will the process be finished? When has it begun to start?

I “ forget.

“I forget.”

Thought is always changing. The process is always begun. The process never finishes.

“The process is always changing.

And “thou”ght “is”” alwa””ys us.

And we are.

And tought is.

I forget.

There will be understanding, since everything changes

into something

And we forget

and structures change

into something

and thought

is

and we

are

thought

and then,

we know

all