Ultranormal Signal | SMAGIN
Ultranormal signal is a fake signal that abuses the receiver’s pattern recognition ability by mimicking a pattern, exagerating it beyond real and causing a stronger response than anything real would.
There’s a concept I first saw (in Russian) in relation to Anime and birds, which I’ve ended up using a lot in other contexts. The concept is that you can abuse pattern recognition of receivers of all sorts by giving them patterns you want them to recognise without actually sending the signal they are trying to recognise from that pattern, and receivers would react to them more intensely than to a real entity.
This can be reified in art, in confidence tricks, in training immune system, and I’m sure in thousand other ways because it’s everywhere.
There is a chance you heard about pattern recognition mostly in context of neural networks, be it brains or artificial ones. Say you want it to recognise cats. You show it a number to cats, a number of non-cats, then show something and it would decide if this something is a cat or not.
