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Processes and behaviors are the means by which the matter or energy contained in a communication system moves around. If an area of matter or energy existing in a static state cannot be information, then
it is as important to describe the processes and behaviors of information in a communication system as it is to be able to classify and describe the matter and energy that comprises the substance of the communication system itself.
Transmission, transformation, and recognition are processes that facillitate communication. Transmission occurs when information moves from one place in space to another over an interval of time. Often, information must be transformed to be transmitted. Transformation happens when an area of matter and/or energy is changed into something else by modifying the organization of its constituents. One way to transform information is to make a copy of the information present in one carrier and modify the organization of that copy so that the new carrier, while organized differently, and made of different substance, carries the same represents the same thing, or the source. When information in a source is copied into a message, this copy is transformed as it is made; and this copy is transmitted over whatever substance the message is made of, etc. Recognition can be considered a process, or the result of a process, that matches a pattern of information sent from a source with a pattern or patterns of information currently present in a mechanism or organism that receives and processes the information sent from the source. Interpretation is a collection of processes that involve the transmission of information from a source to a receiver that recognizes and decodes(and/or deciphers) the information. When a receiver interacts with a transmitter of information, it interprets information. The majority of the work is performed by the decoder of the communication system. A receiver must, at the least, be able to recognize the information it is processing (or has processed), to be interpreting information. An interpretation yields new recognized information that acts or serves some function, even if this function is to maintain the stability or the current status of the system processing the information.
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