"The nearness humans and other animals experience and look out for is complex. It is variegated, unpredictable, often ambiguous, sometimes contradictory, paradoxical, surprising. None of these things you will find in an AI model."

This kind of intentionality demands interpretation and also brings about immediate effects in a dialogical system.... The point is that communication is minded insofar as it is the embodied practice of social subjects."

"We offer intentionality as mutually constituted by producer, audience, and situation. The purposes an actor has in acting emerge with self-other roles and utterance behavior, out of self-organizing social interaction dynamics. ...