Why Communicate ?

Why Communicate ?

Communication allows us to share or exchange our perceptions.

If we did not or could not communicate, we would be bounded
in what we could take into account to determine the undertakings of our lives
to our own perceptions.
No gain would occur in the intricacy of our lives because each person
would have to undertake from birth the same processes of perception
required of our ancestry.

There is something in the scheme of our present nature
that not only allows communication, but allows us to communicate
about communications and thus enlarge the process of exchange of perceptions.

What There is to Communicate
Unaided perception or aided perception, for instance,
the instrumentally aided perceptions of the scientist.
The aiding of perception, however, is not always with scientific instrument.
It is easily demonstrated that our perceptions or observations
are greatly affected by our learnings.
In fact, we may differentiate between “perceptions” and “observations”
by saying that . . . “perceptions” are “observations” aided by learning
and “observations” are “sensations” (the use of the senses) aided by training.

Education is a social form
by which a large body of perception is communicated.
When, however, the bounds or limits of the aids to perception or observation
are transmitted with the perceptions or observations,
the process which before permitted certain freedom,
namely the elimination of the duplication of the same perceptions
or observations, now sustains limits and diminishes freedom.

copyright 2011, 2013, ECOhealth / Eve Revere