Noise, Cyborgs and reduntant conversations!!!

Communication is a process whereby information is enclosed in a package and is channeled and imparted by a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. All forms of communication require a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, however the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication in order for the act of communication to occur. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are verbal means using language and there are nonverbal means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, haptic communication, chronemics, and eye contact, through media, i.e., pictures, graphics and sound, and writing. [DEFINITION FROM WIKIPEDIA]

Personally i think that the definition above basically explains what i think communications means but just includes more 'high-tech' vocab.

The communication model was created by Claud Shannon & Warren Weaver in 1948.
It basically explains that there are 4/5 main elements of successfull communication, transmitter, signal channel, medium, another signal channel and finally a reciever.

1. An information source, which produces a message.
2. A transmitter, which encodes the message into signals
3. A channel, to which signals are adapted for transmission
4. A receiver, which 'decodes' (reconstructs) the message from the signal.
5. A destination, where the message arrives.

 Conversations go back and forth in a [vicious] cybernetic feedback loop that was later on dicovered by Norbet Wiener. Also around this whole [conversation] communiation process there is something weird goin on called noise which is an interference with decoding the message sent over from the encoder, the most common type of noise is environmental noise which could be anything from construction sites near the convo to trying to have a conversation at teh DJ booth.

In a nutshell information is a message that recieved and understood.
There are 2 types of information:
                    1. Redundant- Predictable, establishes common ground, point of contact/information 'Hello, how have you been'
                     2. Entropic- Unpredictable, where infroamtion is conveyed, new learning experience 'The new HTC Desire Z has a where are you app.'

Unfortuanatley there has to be a balance between both redundancy and entropy. With too much redundancy the conversation would be dull, with too much entropy the conversation would be incomprehensible.


hhhhmmmm, thata why alot of people don't understand me when i talk.....