Directly from the book you are "aware of". Communication is any method/procedure by which one mind influences another.bobmax wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 4:17 pmYes, I am aware of it.Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 3:34 pmSome guy in the 40s had a different take...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathema ... munication
In fact, I have a degree in communication engineering.
That was what I thought for many years too.
And communication is still normally understood as such.
But then i realized the limitations of this idea.
Maxwell's equations, for example, are actually a real mystery. They work, but why?
And the messenger particles, imagined to make sense of what is happening, are they not the result of this limited idea of what communication is?
I am convinced that communication is nothing more than a confused and impatient search for God.
It's literally the opening paragraph of the book.
It makes no sense to ask why somethign works any more than it makes sense to ask why Mathematics works. Because we invented it to work and we subjected it to selection bias. if it didn't work - it wouldn't be in use.
Instrumentalism is about utility, not truth.