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-<WRAP box>This page is the second part of a three-part piece on how conversation and social interaction works in my brain. It is loosely based on the system from the 2017 video game "[[The Long Journey Home]]", in which the player has control over a human expedition spacecraft. Each of the three parts goes over the three central ideas that make up this communications system. Understanding it is vital to understand how I think about conversation.\\
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-If you are reading this for the first time, you are encouraged to read them in order:
+In my brain, communication is explained through three things:
-  - [[Interceptions and Encounters]]
+  - The mechanics are described through [[Interceptions and Encounters]]. Intercepting gets us into an Encounter, which is how a conversation starts, runs, and ends.\\
-  - [[TRANSCOM]]
+  - [[TRANSCOM]] is the interface my brain uses to converse. It decodes speech into thoughts and ideas, and it encodes thoughts and ideas into speech. Coarsely, but it sometimes gets the job done.\\
-  - [[Comms Engine]]
+  - Finally, there is the [[Comms Engine]]. The Comms Engine is what my brain uses to decide what to say. It is essentially a chess engine for conversation.
+This is the second part of the series. If you're reading this for the first time, you are encouraged to read the pages in order.
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 TRANSCOM is my integrated human language [[system]] based on the similarly named device from the [[The Long Journey Home]] video game.