Activity 1 – Encoding Document

Communication

Communication, in its general sense, is a chain of events in which the significant link is a message. The chain interprets the message. Communication is a source and extension of imagination in forms that can be learned and shared. It is the production, perception, and understanding of the messages that bear man’s notion of what is important, what is right and what is related to something else.

Messages are events that signify other events. How they accomplish this is a subject of philosophical and psychological controversy, but it is generally agreed that the significance of messages stems from form, pattern and structure rather than from other casually or naturally determined connections with other events.

Where there smoke there may be fire; but smoke is casually determined event and not a message unless it is smoke signal coded to convey significance. Similarly, dark clouds portend rain, but they are not messages may represent events, as pictures do; they may encode meaning associated with events as smoke signal, words, or numbers do; and they symbolize other things in the way verbal and visual languages or graphic patterns do.

The Development of Communication

Men’s hands, brains, eyes, and mouths, are the chief organic means of communication and intelligence. The questions of when and how, the teamwork resulted in speech, drawing, and writing, and why other species with similar organs did not share this development have long puzzle mankind. The puzzle, of course, includes man ability to puzzle, and thus to become so far as we know the one self-conscious creature in the universe.

ENCODED BY: Ana Marie P. Langoyan DATE: January 09,