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The conversation that never endsss

By Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Moaty Abo Aziz · EG

What does it mean to belong to a conversation? A tumour cell keeps the shape of belonging while withdrawing from the tissue that made it. An AI produces the forms of meaning with no one inside for whom anything matters. Drawing on Peirce's theory of signs, my sister's denied treatment, and two ideas for turning a cancer cell's own defences against it, this essay asks who is still in the conversation — and what it takes to be a party to anything

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11 October 2026