I do something you don't believe
you respond, but don't leave
you *can* leave, you just didn't
but because you responded *and* stayed, I have a shot at voluntary metabolisis
I integrate your disbelief, and resolve a new self that is less metabolically distant from you
this is maybe how to make friends?
I'm part *you* now, anyway, whatever that means
and you have a reference point for your "possible ways to engage" bucket that you didn't have before
when continuous functional coherence is the only rule, the space between us becomes a jackpot