Decoding Reality: Understanding Semiotics

Your entire reality is just a system of signs and you are probably reading them wrong.

It is called semiotics and it breaks down how we decode the world. A scratch on your

arm is a natural sign, but a stop sign is just a convention we all agreed on.

You need to understand the difference between syntax, which is just the rules inside the

language, and pragmatics, which is how you actually use words to manipulate situations.

Real intelligence isn't just knowing definitions, like that a square has four sides,

it is understanding the code behind the matrix.