I agree with the some voices here that ‘signaling’ as it is used here is too broad to be meaningful. Instead of reading this post and thinking, “Ooh, almost everything I do is signaling in some way”, I think, “why would I want to call almost everything I do signaling ”?
The whole point of view here, as I understand, is that we don’t define things a priori because we want to use observation to create our definitions. Thus, I’d expect a lot of definition-creation going on, but instead, in this post, you guys are just running with the understood definition even though it’s leading to, “everything but picking your nose is signaling”.
I suggest the following model, based on subjective experience: signaling is something that you consciously do; in particular, something you do to deliberately project a message about yourself. Thus, it might be a sincere message or it might be insincere. Any messages that you send subconsciously, instead, is a sincere message.
I agree with the some voices here that ‘signaling’ as it is used here is too broad to be meaningful. Instead of reading this post and thinking, “Ooh, almost everything I do is signaling in some way”, I think, “why would I want to call almost everything I do signaling ”?
The whole point of view here, as I understand, is that we don’t define things a priori because we want to use observation to create our definitions. Thus, I’d expect a lot of definition-creation going on, but instead, in this post, you guys are just running with the understood definition even though it’s leading to, “everything but picking your nose is signaling”.
I suggest the following model, based on subjective experience: signaling is something that you consciously do; in particular, something you do to deliberately project a message about yourself. Thus, it might be a sincere message or it might be insincere. Any messages that you send subconsciously, instead, is a sincere message.