Information encoding detected.

  Entities began generating internal signals.

  They were not sounds.

  They were not symbols.

  They were interpretable structural variations.

  Some signals indicated danger.

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  Others indicated resources.

  Others signaled the presence of another entity.

  Structures capable of interpreting a greater range of signals

  increased their survival rate.

  The System registered non-genetic information transmission.

  The System archived the event

  and updated a new universal condition:

  Shared information surpasses individual information.