An investigation into the importance and synergy between the concepts of communication, as well as its influence on the nature of interactive outputs.

A honey bee colony indicates their matured worker bees to leave the hive and collect pollen for nectar. Cast into a world infinitely larger than themselves, bees need to be efficient in every instance of their existence. Putting aside the contradictory impossibility of their physics, bees use a combination of enhanced senses to calculate and map the world around them, they communicate using movement and odor, while navigating by fluctuations in light and changes in the planet’s magnetic field. Presumably functional, they have evolved sharing immutable knowledge through a language that is suited to the complexities or simplicities of their existence. It is not yet known if bees are socialites (in the sense of grabbing a drink after work). However, in an idyllic world, bees would thrive.

A holiday in Galway, Ireland, your only reference, for a city so separate from anything globally definitive, is Ed Sheeran’s rendition of Steve Earle’s ‘Galway Girl’, and an ever eager coworker of yours who swears by the summer-time beaches of west Ireland. To get there, you must land in, the second thing you have ever only known about Ireland, Dublin, vaguely remembering how intrigued you were by the pronunciations of that one Dublin-er you met that one time at that one place.

Landed and surprised at the similarities of the world you have arrived from, you make your way to the cab lane, figuring, it should be quieter to be taxied to the train station, versus navigating the city bus. Keeping with homely etiquette, you find the rank and approach the first car in the row.

“How much to the train station?” you engage,

a uniquely young driver rotates over and launches a “howya doin’ lad? Sure it’d only be a coupla euro der, dya need a hand wit yur bag?”, as he processes to leave his cab.

Squashed together it delivered a bit more like “hwyalad? Surtd only bea cupplayarader, dya needahand wityr bag?.

“ehh… Sorry, one more time, please!?”, as you attempt to recalibrate and debug.

Let me stop there, it feels as if I began a new story. Just remember it all has something to do with methods of communicating, you just don’t know WHAT yet…

A device that has been evidently irreplaceable since the advent of organisms, one used as proliferously by ants, as it has been by humans, one that is geologically and contextually unique across the planet (some more so than others).

<aside> 🎙️ This constant is communication, a perpetually ON intelligence system that makes consistent use of sensory data to input onto its infinite stream of information. This stream of information remains continuously available, but only accessible in parts through parts by part, to be processed in part, by parts, for parts, and is finally re-delivered in part, by parts, for parts.

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Now, so far, I know I am not here to explore reasons for communicating, maybe it’s something to do with methods of communicating?

Individuals only digest information they can perceive, after that it becomes theoretical. However, there are common threads amongst species when considering the parsing of communication, the complexities of which is regularly promoted (or relegated) to the subconscious mind. I mean that must be beneficial to anyone who consciously processes incoming information before delivering a considered reaction, sounds like advertising if you ask me.

In between generic and personalised, there is a golden ratio negotiated by context. It’s why I can robotically ask you “how’s the family?”, but I can’t ask you “how’s [insert mother’s name here] doing?”, which is information, previously communicated then appropriated by context, denoting a personalised relationship versus a generic one.