When you peruse the thoughts written in the hand of someone who has died, it’s almost as if there’s a ghost-like quality to it. Ann Blair observes that handwriting gives readers a “privileged point of access to the person writing.” (Blair, Early Modern Attitudes, 265. 106 Yeo, Notebooks, Recollection, and E) -- Scheper, Antinet Zettelkasten.
Of the mind in a box or ghost in the box concept, Niklas Luhmann himself put forth an interesting illustration. Recognizing that this concept is difficult to communicate, Luhmann chose to illustrate this by comparing reading notes without access to the second mind, with the difference between viewing Porn and having sex
In one of the infamous notecards in the Zettelkasten section he used for preparing the paper Communication with Noteboxes, Luhmann wrote:
> Spectators come. They get to see everything, and nothing but that - just like in a porn movie. And so is the disappointment.
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“Ghost in the box? Spectators come. You get to see everything and nothing but that —like porn movies. And so is the disappointment.” –Niklas Luhmann, on communicating with his Zettelkasten (“ZK II: Note 9 / 8.3—Niklas Luhmann Archive,” accessed January 11, 2022, zettel 
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