On 15 Jul 96 at 11:05, Rol Fessenden wrote:
> I am really not intending to nit-pick on this, so apologies in
> advance. In the electronic view of communications, receiving
> normally includes decoding, filtering, and much other manipulation
> of a signal. Ditto on the sending end. Encoding, filtering, and
> "other manipulation" [read this to mean my knowledge is seriously
> out of date] occur before a signal is sent. Aside from the lack of
> consistency in process, how does this differ from what you are
> describing? Can you say more about what you are describing?
Jumping in: Correct me if I am wrong but the mechanistic, electronic
version of communication (including s/n ratios, etc), goes back to the
morse code era, where communication was sequential, as was also the case
with the telegraph. Human communication, at least face to face, is NOT
sequential, since there are multiple signals being sent by both parties at
the same time, both influencing the other in real time. Hence the notion
that there is reciprical simultaneous influence, a dynamic process that
cannot be accounted for in sequential communication models.
In addition, traditional mechanistic communication is harder to apply when
there are multiple communication modalities (words, tone, the details of
body language, etc. Whereas communication electronically can be mushed
into mechanistic models, human behaviour cannot, IMHO, receive proper
attention.
That said, the notions of filters, etc is very valuable.
Robert Bacal, CEO, Institute For Cooperative Communication
dbt359@freenet.mb.ca, Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
(204 888-9290.
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