The paradigms are in initial conditions. This end state of binary/arbitrary/symbol/stat units are largely irrelevant. They're mindless proxies. They bear no relationship to the initial conditions. They're imagination-emasculated, they show no feel for the reality of real information signaling, merely an acquiescence to leadership expedience in anything arbitrary (like tokens).

Try to see the binary as an impassable ceiling that turns us into craven, greedy, status junkie apes. Mediocrity gone wild. That's the binary, and it's seeped already into language, which is symbolic arbitrariness. We don't know how to confront this because we've never confronted it collectively. There was never a front page image on Time Magazine that stated: Are we arbitrary?

Yet we are, we're the poster child for the extinct and doesn't know it sentient.

Each stage of our steady drive to emasculate signaling in favor of adding value displays this openly. Each stage of taking action and expression and rendering them as symbol, then binary, then as counted token, into pretend intelligence showcases a lunatic drive to double down on folk science using logic as a beard in defiance of scientific reason.