Signals have a structure. Most of it is protocols. That is, simple, repeatable, schemas that help communication succeed. At least, in nature that’s how it is, and these protocols are discoverable to observant humans who can resist making up fantasies about them.
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Human signals have protocols too. Except that they are often deceptive or manipulative. Language itself has this general property under clumsy use. ‘It’ ‘tells’ us what to see or think… know or discover… even ‘how to look’. Unless we remain or until we become aware of this.
This is a false signalling environment. What that means is, before you even start to make a signal here, it has been co-opted. Usually in at least 20 important ways of which you are entirely unaware.
In fact, if you’re anything like a common internet user, you are not even aware of the topic I am approaching, let alone its scope, anatomy, and implications. In a false signalling environment, the protocols and the purposes are pre-co-opted. They can be retrieved, but not in an situation where the ‘users’ cannot even recognize the terrain.
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