O flesh, how art thou fishified

Emotion canceling Information science presents signal and noise as a fundamental dichotomy, presuming that these can ultimately be separated cleanly. This leads to a view that language in its multivalence should ideally be reduced to unambiguous code that is pure signal and no noise, and that technology should aim for that goal of abolishing the need for interpretation in favor of pure, direct transmission that operates like a reflex, so that talking to someone would be like pushing their buttons and pulling their strings. The degree to which communication might convey a range of feelings is the degree to which it fails; it should be purified into a purely “neutral” tone of voice, like a Tao Lin novel.