All this is presupposed when symbolically generalized communication media emerge. In the typical case this happens via binary coding.
The positive value, which denotes the connectivity of the operations, is contrasted with another value, a negative value, a reflection value, which says that all connectable operations (all payments, all claims to power, all collective binding decisions, all knowledge fixations, etc.) could also turn out differently without this ending the Autopoiesis of the system.
Binary coding is, in other words, a significant, indeed the leading invention in the development of society of the reconstitution of a medium above the language which is always already in forms and only so usable.
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Of course, we are not talking about mass media. But the widespread idea that media mediate a transmission process must also be abandoned. It is not about how it is possible to bring something (for example information) from A to B. It is about the generation and reproduction of an evolutionarily improbable mode of operation, namely communication.
Symbolically generalized media are specialized →Structures that secure the probability of success of communication. They create expectations of acceptance when rejection is probable, although they cannot safeguard expectations from disappointment. Their function concerns the distinction between acceptance and rejection, which becomes evident after communication has been understood [→Language]. Such communication media are power (or power/law), scientific truth, money (or property/money), love, art and values. All these media are connected to the