The problem with the signaling hypothesis is that in everyday life there is essentially no observation you could possibly make that could disprove it. What is that? This guy is not actually signaling right now? No way, he’s really just signaling that he is so über-cool that he doesn’t even need to signal to anyone. Wait there’s not even anyone else in the room? Well through this behavior he is signaling to himself how cool he is to make him believe it even more.
Guess the only way to find out is if we can actually identify “the signaling circuit” and make functional brain scans. I would actually expect signaling to explain an obscene amount of human behavior… but really everything? As I said I can’t think of any possible observation outside of functional brain scans we could potentially make that could have the potential to disprove the signaling hypothesis of human behavior. (A brain scan where we actually know what we are looking at and where we are measuring the right construct obviously).
The problem with the signaling hypothesis is that in everyday life there is essentially no observation you could possibly make that could disprove it. What is that? This guy is not actually signaling right now? No way, he’s really just signaling that he is so über-cool that he doesn’t even need to signal to anyone. Wait there’s not even anyone else in the room? Well through this behavior he is signaling to himself how cool he is to make him believe it even more.
Guess the only way to find out is if we can actually identify “the signaling circuit” and make functional brain scans. I would actually expect signaling to explain an obscene amount of human behavior… but really everything? As I said I can’t think of any possible observation outside of functional brain scans we could potentially make that could have the potential to disprove the signaling hypothesis of human behavior. (A brain scan where we actually know what we are looking at and where we are measuring the right construct obviously).