When I look at something, I "zoom in and out and participate"
   simultaneously. Like right now:

   I'm responding to things coming into my retina, up my optic
   nerve, down the v4/v5 pathway split into outlines and textures,
   other parts going to the semantic systems, finding meaning
   through metaphorical connections of concepts, entering my
   consciousness where I piece together a ratio-emotional response
   based upon the story it tells me about what I just witnessed,
   and down my nerves they travel to my fingers where I begin to
   type on my keyboard, which activates little plungers that
   connect aluminum or copper contacts, through through the
   computer (which I could go into detail about), out the Wifi, to
   my router, up to the network hub, down the packet switching
   networks from computer to computer, finding the optimized route
   as best it can, to your router, through your wire or wifi, to
   your computer or phone (which is still a computer), to the
   display, across the air into your eye, onto your retina down the
   optic nerve and the process repeats similarly for you.

   So in that sense, we're physically connected during
   communication.

   This is normal to me. Explaining it just seems strange tongue
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