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Basic signaling can be described or explained as follows: A signal is information sent from one place and received at another. A signal can be big or small. A signal can be true or false.* These are the most basic features of all signals. More complex signals contain these three basic features and also exhibit … Continue reading Basic signaling and what it explains
The five precepts of Buddhism are no killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, or irresponsible use of alcohol. These moral guidelines are for non-monastics. I think most of us tend to think of the five precepts as being about the material world. After all, killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, and getting drunk are all rooted in actions … Continue reading Buddhist morality and signaling
In the first three parts of A signal based model of psychology, we discussed micro, meso, and macro levels of human understanding and how paying attention to these levels can make human signaling easier to comprehend. In this post I want to discuss how human signaling is normally managed and, knowing this, how we can … Continue reading A signal-based model of psychology: part four
Signals sent between people are almost never simple, single entities devoid of ambiguity. Indeed, even very clear communicative signals, especially in interpersonal communication, are often fraught with subliminal associations. These “extra” associations are a primary cause of interpersonal error and ambiguity, and deriving from that, of individual, personal discomfort or neurosis. We have mentioned this … Continue reading Repost: Signals and subliminal signal associations
Two major advantages to conceiving of humans as signaling systems with micro, meso, and macro levels are: we can get clearer data on signals than by other approaches, and analyzing micro. meso, and macro levels allows us to see even more clearly how human signaling works and why problems occur I will discuss each of … Continue reading A signal-based model of psychology: part three
If we consider humans to be complex signaling systems or networks, then it is readily apparent that each human network signals within itself and also is connected by signals to other networks. In A signal-based model of psychology: part one, we said: the only significant interpersonal signaling data we can really know with significant certainty … Continue reading A signal-based model of psychology: part two
A valuable and basic definition of morality might simply be “clear signaling.” If I harm you, I am messing with your signaling, making it less clear. If I deceive you, I am doing the same. If my own internal signaling is unclear, confused, or contradictory, I am probably going to cause harm to others whether … Continue reading Signals and morality
From Pater Tenebrarum’s recent piece The Taming of Deluded ‘Conspiracy Theorists’?: Look who is warning us again about the great harm conspiracy theories are doing to the minds of impressionable citizens everywhere: Cass Sunstein has emerged at Bloomberg, to once again plead for ‘correction’ of the many conspiracy theories that are disseminated on that pesky … Continue reading The ‘Semiotic Age’ or the ‘Age of Signals’
Signals sent between people are almost never simple, single entities devoid of ambiguity. Indeed, even very clear communicative signals, especially in interpersonal communication, are often fraught with subliminal associations. These “extra” associations are a primary cause of interpersonal error and ambiguity, and deriving from that, of individual, personal discomfort or neurosis. We have mentioned this … Continue reading Signals and subliminal signal associations
Signals are fundamental to everything that exists. There can be no physical realm without signals and certainly no life. What is a signal? Anything that transmits any effect to anything else is a signal. In this sense, all signals “mean” something, including the smallest signal anyone can think of. The advantage of basing a model … Continue reading A signal-based model of psychology: part one
Schizophrenia is characterized in part by difficulty in telling the difference between internal and external signals. My guess is that virtually all “normal” people are characterized by their difficulty in telling truthful signals from bullshit. Normal interpersonal relations are conducted with signals that have low resolution. By that I mean, signal references are rarely unambiguous. … Continue reading Repost: Signal quality
Basing our understanding of human “psychology” on signalling and signalling systems—essentially seeing people as complex signalling systems—can make many aspects of being human clearer. For example, rather than analyze “introversion” versus “extroversion,” we can use terms that work better with the signalling model—introspection versus extrospection. Extrospection is a made up word. In this context it … Continue reading Signalling as a basis for understanding introversion and extroversion
Identity is constructed of memories, memories that have to be tended to, and this takes time and energy. You have to remember who you are and often have to work pretty hard just to maintain that image within yourself, to say nothing of projecting it toward other people and getting them to accept it. A … Continue reading Identity and signaling
Buddhism is very much a system of ethics. Buddhist practice is founded on the Five Precepts of refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and the irresponsible use of alcohol. In most Buddhist traditions, these precepts are often taught as if they were fundamental to the workings of the universe. But how can morality be … Continue reading Buddhism and ethical signalling
Schizophrenia is characterized in part by difficulty in telling the difference between internal and external signals. My guess is that virtually all “normal” people are characterized by their difficulty in telling truthful signals from bullshit. Normal interpersonal relations are conducted with signals that have low resolution. By that I mean, signal references are rarely unambiguous. … Continue reading Signal quality
