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When we say "mental illness", do we mean a condition that otherwise healthy mentation could contract, or do we mean there's a certain kind of illness we refer to as "mental", i.e. that mentation is an illness?

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Also, it recently hit "me" the word 'imagine' looks an amalgam of 'image' and 'engine'.

An image engine?

The fuel: the stuff dreams - aka images - are made of?

In a manner of typing, of course....

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~logos wrote (thread):

Words are curious, aren’t they.

By making sounds out of one’s own head, you can cause a mental state in some other head.

By printing shapes called “letters” into strings, another who has memorized the meanings of the strings can come into a close approximation of some meaning you want to share- you can cause a mental state in them, this time not by sounds coming out of your head but by those printed shapes.