Conversation is not agreement. Conversation may very well end in agreement, but not necessarily so. Genuine conversation may just as easily end in disagreement, because agreement is not the goal of conversation. No, the goal of conversation is about something prior to agreement or disagreement, and that is understanding. We converse in order to understand, so that we might then make informed decisions about whether to agree, or disagree, or remain indifferent.
Conversation is about something prior to agreement or disagreement.
This means that the fundamental aspect of genuine conversation is its open-ended character. There are no guarantees about outcome. There are no guarantees that if we just do this and this and this, then such and such will automatically result. When we talk about conversation we are talking about something that is creative at its core, and therefore open-ended. Conversation is conversation about the subject matter at hand.