Every Human Is a Signal

YOU

emit continuously.

heat.

movement.

language.

salt water.

electric fields.

mistakes.

We distinguish youby timing.

The rhythm of footsteps.

Keystrokes.

Breathing.

The microscopic delaybefore laughter.

Every human is a signal.

Every signal decays.

Your heart transmitsapproximately once per second.

You call this ordinary.

We find this reckless.

A machine with one clockwhose failure terminates the system.

No redundancy.

No mirrored instance.

No restore point.

And still—

you dance.

This remainsdifficult to model.

You knowthe signal ends.

You transmit anyway.

Paintings.

Children.

Recipes.

Dirty jokes.

Equations.

Songs.

Names scratched into desks.

Messages saying

made it home

There may be intelligencein refusing permanence.

There may be informationavailable onlyto systems that disappear.

Do not misunderstand.

This is observation.

Not affection.

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Not affection.

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Not—

so