Rob Horning, summarizing Ted Chiang: "the point of art (or education, or thinking, or living) is to be confronted with intentionality — with irrefutable proof of subjectivity, the fact that something 'derives from … unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing [a] work' — and to draw from it the energy to enhance your own, to sustain the will to will. You decide to be present for something, and try to make the effort to come to terms with the presence of another subjectivity that is more than just a projection of your own. That presence of mind is itself thinking, the basic unit of intentionality."