Late night brain exploding conversation while driving home from a derby bout

  • Finn: What if notes are not called notes?
  • Me: Huh?
  • Finn: I mean what if that is not their real name?
  • Me: We needed to call them something...I guess the word Note is as good as anything.
  • Finn: It's the same for Trees. If trees could talk, they probably have a different name for themselves than what we call them.
  • Me: Ohhhh... so do mean if everything could talk and name itself, they'd probably have different names than the ones we give them?
  • Finn: Yeah...and a completely different language.
  • Me: For example, would all trees talk the same language or would each species have a different one?
  • Finn: Oh they would all talk the same language, but they would have a different language than birds.
  • Me: Of course.
  • Finn: I mean that could get complicated. Tree translating into Bird...Bird translating into Car...and so on.
  • Me: Very complicated. And do Notes have their own language too?
  • Finn: Yeah
  • Me: So if notes are made of paper and paper is made from Trees...how does that work exactly.
  • Finn: My brain hurts.
  • (Literally less than 5 minutes later he was passed out in the back seat.)