Communication
Communication has long been erroneously synonimous with human communication; but communication is a fundamental process of life, indispensible for phenomena such as transition from unicellularity to multicellularity, morphogenesis, mating and predator-prey interactions, mutation, adaptation and selection, from simply collective to social behavior in animals and humans, and so many more.
Communication is fundamental for collective behavior; whether we are talking about scaling from one cell to many or from one individual to a group. Given this axiom, then we can start to peel away the contextual, highly specific patterns of communication between different species (there is a co-evolution of anatomy, physiology, and actual communication or exchange of information within a species and a genetic/behavioral co-evolution of communication across species, such as predator-prey or symbiosis). Therefore I do think that, if we are accepting the evolutionary aspect of biology and sociology on Earth, we should be accepting this evolutionary aspect of communication and try to find the fundamental patterns for communication in information per se, similarly as we found DNA in the physical aspect of evolution.
In my view, communication is fundamental for collective behavior; whether we are talking about scaling from one cell to many or from one individual to a group. Given this axiom, then we can start to peel away the contextual, highly specific patterns of communication between different species (there is a co-evolution of anatomy, physiology, and actual communication or exchange of information within a species and a genetic/behavioral co-evolution of communication across species, such as predator-prey or symbiosis). Therefore I do think that, if we are accepting the evolutionary aspect of biology and sociology on Earth, we should be accepting this evolutionary aspect of communication and try to find the fundamental patterns for communication in information per se, similarly as we found DNA in the physical aspect of evolution.
This talk exemplifies how communication can be modeled using agent-based modeling and how it can relate to scaling from one entity to two as well as to understanding more complex, collective behavior.
This talk discusses the many facets of communication and is a reassessment of communication as a phenomenon that can have different means and meanings, depending on the biological, social or technological context.
"It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening." (SELF-ANNIHILATING SENTENCES - Saul Gorn's Compendium Of Rarely Used Cliches, 1985)