We can see the purpose of smalltalk here: it’s nominally the exchange of logical information, but the actual result is to drive two harmonic systems into entrainment with each other.
This starts a whole section that makes a lot of sense to me intuitively. For example, I often prefer smalltalk to serious talk at parties because it lets me focus more on what I view as the point of a party, which is to feel connected to other folks. If that’s happening because of some kind of synchronization of brain waves in the connectome, that would make a lot of sense.
A further example, when meeting a group of new people I’m often quiet at first as I listen to how they interact and get a sense of what the norms are. We could interpret this as getting in sync with their connectome waves so that I can have a harmonious interaction instead of a discordant one. This predicts that perhaps some people tend to stay quiet or have a hard time enjoying parties with strangers because they take a long term to get in sync, and other people enjoy parties even more than me because they get in sync faster.
This starts a whole section that makes a lot of sense to me intuitively. For example, I often prefer smalltalk to serious talk at parties because it lets me focus more on what I view as the point of a party, which is to feel connected to other folks. If that’s happening because of some kind of synchronization of brain waves in the connectome, that would make a lot of sense.
A further example, when meeting a group of new people I’m often quiet at first as I listen to how they interact and get a sense of what the norms are. We could interpret this as getting in sync with their connectome waves so that I can have a harmonious interaction instead of a discordant one. This predicts that perhaps some people tend to stay quiet or have a hard time enjoying parties with strangers because they take a long term to get in sync, and other people enjoy parties even more than me because they get in sync faster.