not so coincidentally, human conversation protocols (at a high level) look a lot like some communication protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense

not so coincidentally, human conversation protocols (at a high level) look a lot like some communication protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_with_collision_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_...