It depends on what you mean by about—beware teleological capture. Suppose that your contemporary really, really likes scenery, and also, separately, furthermore, likes to brag about the time he spent in the wilderness to observe the scenery. In describing your contemporary’s behavior, we can simply note these two separate facts, without making any potentially confusing assertions about what the behavior is really “about.”
Right, that was my point. Even the things that don’t seem to be about signaling could be about signaling.
It depends on what you mean by about—beware teleological capture. Suppose that your contemporary really, really likes scenery, and also, separately, furthermore, likes to brag about the time he spent in the wilderness to observe the scenery. In describing your contemporary’s behavior, we can simply note these two separate facts, without making any potentially confusing assertions about what the behavior is really “about.”