Here’s the key takeaway: dialogue is expensive. It takes an enormous amount of processing power to absorb all these signals, compose a response, and broadcast it back. Because interactions so overwhelm our processing ability, it’s almost impossible to fake your intent. Sure, you can probably fake the words, but the rest of you will give yourself away. Yes, it’s the lizard brain again. The fastest part of our brain is busy receiving and sending microsignals that may completely belie the words we’re using.
