You think you can solve this by recommitting to friendly civic & social engagement with each other? Those protocols were defined for healthy, non-internet-poisoned people. Good luck.
This is what Star Wars, The Matrix, and Avatar all understand: for the full neuronal thrill of an FX blockbuster, filmmakers must introduce some new concept of proprioception. After Star Wars, people fantasize about swinging swords made of light. After the Matrix, people fantasize about bullet time. After Avatar, (IDK I want my thesis to be true so I'll act like) people fantasize about the neuralink stuff.
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"Hurr durr we can describe mal/adaptive conditions according to analytically sound categorization" -- Do you realize how crazy you sound, DSM?
One of the nice things about semiotic synechism it's a kind of informational monadism. As a metaphysical frame is that you have no difficulty accounting for the compatibility of informational activities in self-perception, nerve-firing, or machine calculation. It's referent-vehicle-translatant all the way down.
Language is the infinite game in which culture floats. The people who make new sentences are like Columbus discovering new continents of coherence inside the Library of Babel.
In the world of corpus linguistics and LLMs, one of the most important things you can do as someone with a bespoke, hand-raised, open-range wetware language-processor is to use it to create new sentences.
You have rhematic hard-wired full-channel access to the tychic character of the universe. You're already narrating sentences about it anyway. You're narrating a sentence to yourself about this text right now.
So why not make those sentences stranger and more public?
I'm personally in favor of many such changes! And I think that we are all honored by decent, public conversations about what we owe to each other.
And that's specifically why I bristle at those who act as if they can get their way by twisting language a bit and taking umbrage at those who don't play along in the word game.
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.