aos/hub/signal.md

signal information transmitted from a sender to a receiver that changes the receiver's state or behavior. a signal carries meaning only if it costs something to produce — otherwise it is noise. this is the core insight of signaling theory in biology, costly signals (peacock tails, gazelle stotting)…

a bundle of cyberlinks a neuron commits in a single step — the atomic broadcast unit in cyber. each link in the signal consumes focus, making every statement a costly signal structure $$s \;=\; (\nu,\; \vec\ell,\; \pi_\Delta,\; \sigma,\; t)$$ | field | name | type | semantics |…