[kordlessagain]

I would add that the non-language mental (visual) model each of us builds (in mind) of the world, in this moment, is both similar and different from other's models.

War and Peace is like a textual Xray of Tolstoy's brain, some of it being descriptive of what he saw while writing it. If our models are similar enough, together we'll see the same things he saw while we read it.