My essay builds off his reply to my comment, which reply had nothing to do with his story--he and I engaged in a conversation that expanded beyond the scope of his story, so, your point is misplaced. I'm not arguing with him and he wasn't arguing with me.

Moreover, the points I make about the heart as the broadcaster and receiver of pure feelings, as opposed to emotions, are substantive and much more than terminology and not mere technicalities.

You didn't offend me but you did annoy me.

For some reason you completely misunderstood and accused me of engaging in narcissism of small differences.

This experience just now is what Colby Hess wrote about recently and I just read a few hours ago in his https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/comments-as-a-window-into-the-soul-ce82bd6ea2a6, which includes "Take, for example, those who, for whatever reason, have somehow entirely missed the point of your essay, ascribing to you a stance you don’t hold, a position you’ve explicitly refuted, or an attitude you don’t exhibit — all of them wholly inconsistent with the rest of the piece and with your overall literary corpus. How does that happen? I’m talking about those times when you read a comment and you’re like, “Umm... I’m pretty sure that’s not at all what I said, and yet, that’s apparently what you read? Are you sure we’re talking about the same essay?”

Colby is an excellent writer and thinker. I recommend his essay. And this one that I read last week: https://medium.com/thought-thinkers/western-science-has-a-glaring-philosophy-deficit-a2b8829e9429