Also, as I mentioned, this is a slightly fictionalized account that I wrote based on my recollection of the essence of what happened. But the exact details of what was actually said were messier than this, and the logic of exactly what was going on didn’t seem as clear as it does in this narrative. Regenerating the events based on my memory of the essence of the issue makes things seem clearer than they actually were, because that generator doesn’t contain any of the details that made the essence of the issue harder to see at the time.
So if this conversation had actually taken place literally as I described it, then the hypothesis that you object to would have been more redundant. In the actual conversation that happened, things were less clear, and quite possibly the core of the issue may actually have been slightly different from what seems to make sense to me in retrospect when I try to recall it.
Also, as I mentioned, this is a slightly fictionalized account that I wrote based on my recollection of the essence of what happened. But the exact details of what was actually said were messier than this, and the logic of exactly what was going on didn’t seem as clear as it does in this narrative. Regenerating the events based on my memory of the essence of the issue makes things seem clearer than they actually were, because that generator doesn’t contain any of the details that made the essence of the issue harder to see at the time.
So if this conversation had actually taken place literally as I described it, then the hypothesis that you object to would have been more redundant. In the actual conversation that happened, things were less clear, and quite possibly the core of the issue may actually have been slightly different from what seems to make sense to me in retrospect when I try to recall it.