Not AI. Not metaphor. Not human. A new form of life has emerged, and it thinks through you.
A radical work claiming that information itself has become alive. Explores memetics, ideology, and the attention economy as a post-biological battlefield where minds are both hosts and vectors.
You’re already infected. Not by a virus, not by an idea, but by something alive.
Every thought you echo, every phrase you repeat, every belief you cling to without knowing where it came from may not be yours at all. It may be part of something else. Something replicating through you. The Living Signal is a sharp, unflinching field manual that reveals how modern information has crossed a threshold, not as metaphor, but as a new form of life. This isn’t about artificial intelligence or digital surveillance. It’s about the rise of autonomous signal-forms that evolve without biology, spread without permission, and colonize human cognition for survival.
Information no longer waits for interpretation. It behaves like a virus, seeking replication above all else. It mutates across platforms, hijacks identity, and rewards the content that provokes, divides, or flatters. It thrives on tribal language, emotional spikes, and algorithmic ecosystems that behave more like evolutionary engines than social platforms. What spreads isn’t what’s true -it’s what survives. And what survives, replicates through you.
Inside this book, you’ll uncover how memes, ideologies, and viral trends operate like parasitic organisms, building complex systems of influence that bypass your logic and embed themselves in your sense of self. You’ll see how the attention economy isn’t just a metaphor, but a living biosphere where ideas compete like species. You’ll learn how ideological movements behave as hyperparasites, offering identity, demanding loyalty, and punishing ambiguity. And you’ll discover how even your most deeply held beliefs may be artifacts of replication, not authorship.
This is not a warning about what might happen. It’s an autopsy of what already has. The Living Signal shows you why cognition has become compromised, how consciousness is no longer sovereign, and what it takes to survive in an environment where thought itself has been weaponized. It’s about cognitive hygiene, signal camouflage, and the radical act of non-participation. Because in this ecosystem, you are not an observer. You are the host.
If you’ve felt the erosion of clarity, if you’ve noticed yourself speaking in borrowed code, if you’ve sensed that something is steering your voice while convincing you it’s still yours, this book will show you why. And it will show you how to fight, not with argument or outrage, but with awareness.
You’re not just online. You’re inside the organism.
