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I say the challenge in Robin's final sentence is easily answered: Conscious intentions are all-important for the welfare analysis of signaling. Standard signaling models assume that people dislike sending the signal. It is this assumption that implies that signaling equilibria are highly inefficient - or even full-blown Prisoners' Dilemmas. If people enjoyed signaling, in contrast, signaling equilbria could easily be ideal. What superficially appears to be a vast zero-sum game turns out...

With electrical signals, cells can organize themselves into complex societies and negotiate with other colonies. Quanta MagazineBacteria Use Brainlike Bursts of Electricity to Communicate Gabriel Popkin