Here we consider a related phenomenon: how two minds can enact a dialogue through subtle attunements, pauses, and relational timing. This echoes previous explorations of silent or unshared communication while highlighting the dynamics of co-present alignment.
Two people sit together in quiet. No words are exchanged. Yet, in the pauses, in the rhythms of breath, in the shifting weight of the body, a dialogue unfolds.
The silence is not empty. It is filled with construal — alignment, anticipation, attunement. Each gesture is a question, each glance an answer. Language is not spoken, yet meaning is alive.
Here, dialogue is revealed not as the exchange of words but as the alignment of construals. Silence itself becomes medium, a cut through which possibility is negotiated. The dialogue remains dialogue, even without sound.
What this reveals:
Dialogue is not reducible to speech. It is the relational movement of construal between participants. Words are only one mode of actualising this movement. Silence shows that meaning is carried not by utterances alone but by the shared horizon that makes utterance possible.
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