Module 04
Signal & Authority
Does the presence of information automatically give that information authority over the whole system?
Information can be real without being command.
Fear
Fear is information.
Does fear automatically establish that danger is present?
Memory
Memory provides information from previous experience.
Does similarity automatically establish that the present is identical to the past?
Prediction
Prediction prepares for possible outcomes.
Does prediction establish what will happen?
Cognition
Cognition constructs interpretation.
Does an interpretation become fact because cognition generated it?
Emotion
Emotion provides information about impact and significance.
Does the presence of an emotional state establish identity?
Another person’s response
Their response provides relational information.
Does their interpretation of you establish who you are?
Before differentiation
Signal
↓
Automatic organizational authority
↓
Response
After differentiation
Signal
↓
Information available to the system
↓
relationship + context + evaluation
↓
multiple possible responses
Differentiation changes the relationship
between information and authority.
Signal can inform without automatically commanding the organization of the whole system.
The signal does not have to disappear for its authority to change.
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