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Introduction: Modality Engineering is a relatively young discipline which has its roots in mathematical linguistics, anthrolingualsemiotics, neurolinguistics and neurophysics. The term Modality Engineering describes the mixture of two scientific paradigms. One, engineering, is a traditionally "hard" science in the sense that engineering involves rigorous mathematical trainings and proofs, and is expressed by the willful or intentional intervention of humankind on nature. The other, modality, is a traditionally "soft" science term and deals with how individuals interact with information on an individual level. The combination of these terms, Modality Engineering, is therefore descriptive of a mathematical rigor applied to the intentional and willful intervention of the user on how individuals will interact with information.
The purpose of this paper is to explain some of the key concepts of Modality Engineering and give examples of its use in order to provide a foundation for the discipline. The mathematics of modality engineering is straightforward and readers with a common arithmetic background will be able to follow easily. Some more advanced features of modality engineering require some elementary calculus and trigonometry. The most advanced features require a knowledge of solid probabilities and concept spaces.37 While these understandings can be had in most high school through college math text books, the growth of modalities and modality mathematics stems from semiotics and language and that can be a more interesting path to follow. This offered, the following section is intended to bring the reader to a clearer understanding of how modalities function and to give examples of modalities and operations on them using NextStage's Evolution Technology and its Language Engines.