Friday, June 20, 2014

Axioms

COMMUNICATION IS INEVITABLE, IRREVERSIBLE AND UNREPEATABLE.

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, perceptions or commands, as by speech, gestures, writings, behaviour and possibly by other means such as electromagnetic, chemical or physical phenomena. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more participants (machines, organisms or their parts).
Communication requires a sender, a message, a medium and a recipient, although the receiver does not have to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver understands the sender's message.
Communication
However, communication is irreversible, inevitable and unrepeatable.
  • Irreversible: Communication is irreversible in the sense that once the source says something, they cannot take it back whether it is what they intended to say or not. That is why it is important to stop and think before we speak or send a message. You can never undo what you said. Communication is like a skyscraper. When destroyed or collapses(said out) it is impossible to have that building back except reconstructing a new one(irreversibility).
A collapsed building
  •  Inevitable: Communication is in two forms; Verbal and Non-verbal communication. Verbal involves the use of words while non-verbal involves the use of body language. Communication is inevitable means your communicating without even realizing you are. Even with a blank stare, someone somewhere is interpreting your thought as their own. Like the book says, there is no way you cannot NOT respond to someone, even by staying quiet that itself is an action and a response. An example is when you scream at someone and they say nothing back to you but you see their eyes water and start to cry. They didn't say anything back but their body language told you that they were hurt or sad. 
  •  Unrepeatable: Communication is unrepeatable is more like 'you never get a second chance to make a first impression' I would say that the way the audience receives the message the first time it is conveyed to him/her is not the same way he will receive the same message if it is conveyed the second time. Communication is unrepeatable means that when something happens and you try to reenact a situation of how it happened, it won't come out the way it really happened, it maybe close but never exactly the same. An example of this is if you and your mom get into an argument and your trying to show your friend how it happened, if she wasn't there in person she won't know exactly how it was.

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