I feel like the core problem here is in the word “authentic”. It uses a relatively generic positively-laden word for a phenomenon that might better be described as something like “impactful”.
As in, public-emotional speech does genuinely seem more impactful than private-calm speech, and this is partly the phenomenon aAlice is observing.
If you want to model some phenomenon, you probably do need to start with the most impactful aspects of the phenomenon—but hopefully eventually you will learn about the causes of the more impactful aspects, which will often include chaotic interactions between and/or large sums of the less impactful aspects.
I feel like the core problem here is in the word “authentic”. It uses a relatively generic positively-laden word for a phenomenon that might better be described as something like “impactful”.
As in, public-emotional speech does genuinely seem more impactful than private-calm speech, and this is partly the phenomenon aAlice is observing.
If you want to model some phenomenon, you probably do need to start with the most impactful aspects of the phenomenon—but hopefully eventually you will learn about the causes of the more impactful aspects, which will often include chaotic interactions between and/or large sums of the less impactful aspects.