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...consciousness, the book actually begins to fulfill the promise of its subtitle. Entitled "Communication, "the second part of The User Illusion moves past the infinite algorithms of part one to discuss issues of consequence to the general reader. Some terminology barriers still exist, since Norretranders is quite the neologist. Words like "exformation"--used to describe explicitly discarded information--pepper his phrases, as do psychological acronyms like SZQ, used for "subjektives Zeitquant." or psychological moment...
Many of those terms will soon be outdated, of course, if they are not already. The very existence of the pamphlet threatens them. If every volunteer understands what convicts are saying, the inmate neologist will simply invent new jargon to remain different from the straights. For some prisoners, that's a number one Jones they do not want to kick...
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