Imagine, if you will, that we are map makers. We have been making maps for as long as we can remember, and so too our parents, and our parent's parents, and so forth and so on. We have been making maps for so long that the maps alone have become our obsession; we are making maps of maps of maps... We have forgotten reality.
What is reality? There is this physical reality which seems very compelling, pervasive, and persistent, but there is also an abstract reality which, although it remains elusive of physical senses, is just as compelling/pervasive/persistent, if not more so. Indeed, it is a superset of physical reality, the source of every thing.
An important and fundamental difference between the physical and the abstract is that of locality/existence. In physical reality, existence requires a specific location in space-time, thus objects are unique and we have the problem of property/possession/ownership. The structures of abstract reality (or information space) are also necessarily unique; however, anything which thinks may wander at will throughout information space without displacement of either the observed or other observers. Information space remains eternal, without change; it is the observation which may change.
For example: If upon some shore I find a pretty pebble and give it to you, it is yours, no longer mine; by contrast, if beyond some invisible door I find an interesting idea and show you to it, it is ours, cause to combine.
Property is a physical phenomenon. We may think we create ideas but we find them. Finding ideas is often associated with great expense of time and energy, and the tendency for secrecy and compensation, but information space remains open and free, without security, without commodity.
Ironically, it seems we consider information and idea as commodity and we peddle our maps, whether for commerce or for pride. Communication is not the negotiation/transference of proprietary privilege; rather it is the exchange of coordinates/symbols/language such that each observer may find the same address/location in information space, and though each individual perception remains unique, they are perceptions of a common object.
I have not given you something that is mine (no more than a map to define), I only wish to bring you somewhere that I have been, such that you may look upon that which I have seen, with your own experience and perception, possibly to reveal to me, something of the real mystery between.