Communication

The Information Gap: Let us Think.

According to the theory of communication, people communicate on the behalf of a lack of information on one side of the participants. You can also say that there is a difference of content between the parts. Actually, communication makes that gap visible so that the participants are aware of what somebody knows and how it is related to the content of information the other participant lacks.

However, another important aspect in this concern is that whenever the event of communincation takes place, the awareness of two things occurs. Firstly, that the part that is provided with the piece of information becomes conscious of having it. Secondly, that the part not possessing that piece of information becomes conscious of not having it. 

Are those conditions enough for communication to happen? Well, not really. Otherwise, human communication might be comparable to a simple Physics experiment where, in a system, energy gets transmitted as a result of a higher level of energy on one side, which automatically makes energy flow towards the othe side. Take tsunamis as an instance. They are the result of the accumulation of energy in some spot of the planet, such as an earthquake. In this case, the sea water just cannot not avoid being pushed and, in its own turn, pushing the natural forces so as to compensate the excess of energy, humans and other living beings being usually the victims. Nature is always trying to levelling off unbalances. In some othe cases that is favourable to us, like in the case of the sun, whose continuous unleashing of heat and light enables the existence of life.

That is not the identical case for the information gap. There is another factor contributing greatly to the realization of an event of communication, which is intention. Intention is the willingness of the parts to both share and receive the item in question. Let us take into consideration a classroom. In this case, the teacher provides the attendants for the information they ignore. The possibility for the students not to need it is almost zero due to the compulsoriness of school programs to be applied. Yet, school related-topics can also be a real request made by youngters, that is, they may enjoy being taught those items.
The enormous challenge for every participant in this particular example of event of communication is how to come to terms with the purpose each of us has. The challenge gets even bigger as the only thing we come in contact with is the language realization, those few items constituting the parole serving our understading not merely of the message received and the sender's intention as well. It can even be claimed that puspose is what will lead the interaction to the ultimate goal of one of the participants. In fact, the other part could be persuaded or obliged to do so. Is this view skeptical? It probably is, but at least warns us about the complexity of human communication. We need to verbalise things to discover things that have been existing in someone else's mind. Words may help us understand his "lines". But we may perceive between them, what his intention actually is. Yet, there is more to be included in this apparently complex mechanism.

         You know, it's all about money...         
                                                                         What do you mean?




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