SIGNALS

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Other animals are signaling

What information was sent?

A firefly sending pulses of light through dark air toward another firefly. Teaching picture, not a field recording.

Firefly

What was sent

Light pulses. I am here. I am this kind. Teaching picture. Not a field recording.

What was sent

I am here. I am this kind.

What this room is not

The flash is the signal. Finding a path home is a different question.

  1. Source

    An animal

  2. Medium

    Light, water, ground, electric field

  3. Signal

    A pulse, a call, a rumble, a field

  4. Detector

    Another animal

  5. Measurement

    A change in a sense organ

  6. Meaning

    Presence, kind, contact. Sometimes unknown.