This is following on from this post.

I.

So, I am aware I did, in fact, make a statement on mesalanguage. I feel I am forced to elaborate.
Allow each system to have a Markov blanket associated with itself. All systems, all ideas, are within a single sort of proto-idea, which is the underlying idea of language. That is: if we keep going up, there is the Platonic realm of ideas, the things which cast shadows, so to speak, that creates the basic ideas of language and other more narrow ideas. Then, imagine ideas. Imagine, say, bubbles. Bubbles can split, if the surface tension becomes too high. Now, ideas are bubbles, and the surface tension is the, say, catophlipolyplokos, or the Catopolis. I prefer the second, since it sounds like catastrophe city, but it’s more correct to be the catophlipolyplokos. My point is, at some point, things become more complex. When does this happen?

II.

There are three criteria for reaching Catopolis.
-> Mesalanguage. This is the internal language, not a dialect or anything, but the usage of words understood by outsiders that have different meanings specific to the group, or new words.
-> Attractor. This needs to be some sort of sticky power that keeps the group from just splitting - for instance, a shared history, or a shared struggle, or a shared interest. Mesalanguage with no attractor is just a collection of buzzwords.
-> Gatekeeping. As bad as it sounds, the people within the group need to stop other people from diluting it, otherwise it is pulled back into the higher mesalanguage.

III.

I do regret to say this is a short one - but I thought it to be, rather, an addendum, not a full post. This is an addon.