Communication and coordination
Interference
An interruption of transmission within the authors’ explanatory model.
The big idea
Stephenson separates the organizing source from the transmission of its forces. His account places the difficulty in transmission, then links that difficulty to incoordination. Follow this sequence to understand the claim he is making.
An everyday illustration
A clear instruction can still arrive incomplete over a poor phone connection. That illustrates the distinction between an instruction and its delivery.
An original illustration to help explain the idea, not a quotation or evidence of a biological mechanism.
In the author’s words
“There can be interference with the transmission of Innate forces.”
1927 edition · PDF page 31
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Read it in context
Principles 29–31 connect interference, dis-ease, and subluxation. Those are historical causal claims within this system, not a diagnosis of a reader’s symptoms.
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