Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.
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The words, how they’re arranged and such.
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The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.
99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what’s going on here is you talking to yourself.
No, I am a follower of Wittgenstein’s notion of “language games” where all language is socially constructed by groups of people participating in a self-perpetuating linguistic context. It is an objective phenomenon as words which have no meaning to another person cannot exist.