José Luiz Braga 332 cultural process and the algorithmic process of interaction, will be to point out some of the communication challenges that this type of algorithm generates and that demand counter strategies on the part of society. 2. Interactional patterns in cultural mode Recently, the journal Matrizes, from USP, published an article in which I discuss communication as the work of diversity (Braga, 2022). It involves an evolutionary praxeological per- spective to observe the interactional conditions of stability and transformation that move society according to communicational dynamics W . hat in this text we can refer to as “flexible social algo- rithms” (habitual cultural patterns of interaction) corresponds to what I conceptualize as “communication processors” in the aforementioned paper. These include patterns (the part that could be characterized as algorithmic), but they also include the flexibility to adjust to specific situations, as well as the possibil- ity of redirections, in the event, which is now frequent, of the emergence of less usual circumstances. In another paper (Braga, 2023), in order to think about interactional problems between human beings, I refer to a prop- osition by Hannah Arendt, in “The Human Condition” (2018): If men were not distinct […] they would need neither speech nor action to make themselves understood – Signs and sounds to communicate imme- diate, identical needs and wants would be enough (p.175, emphasis added). Precisely because we are diverse, we need speech and actions – to understand one another – and above all to act in the shared world that constitutes society. We adjust the differences by creating certain sets of sequenced rules – through commu- nicational gestures, in successive approximation. When these attempts, by making reasonable selections, are adjusted, they ultimately constitute an arrangement available to society, which we can metaphorize as a flexible interactional algorithm.
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