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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Niklas Luhmann
Communication, Brain, Mind
"Materialities of Communication" edited by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, (p. 371), 1988.

Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

Niklas Luhmann
Reality, Doe, Perceive
Niklas Luhmann, William Rasch (2002). “Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity”, p.145, Stanford University Press

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Niklas Luhmann
Art, Art Is, Works Of Art
Niklas Luhmann (2000). “Art as a Social System”, p.153, Stanford University Press

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