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The limits of what can be called information and communication is determined by how each word is defined. According to the definition of information provided in this webpage, a system must be complex enough to recognize or create a message for information to exist. In other words, some part of an information or communication system must be sufficiently complex to recognize information. Simple systems yield simple forms of information and communication, complex systems are capable of handling more complex and involved forms of information and communication. The simplest communication would have the least possible number of interacting parts. A communication that involves an insect reacting to light is less complex than a communication that includes two people sending e-mail to each other from different computers. An interpretation by a human would also be more complex than an interpretation made by an earthworm or a switch because a human uses more different interacting structures to recognize and interpret information than an earthworm or a switch do.
As the parts that make up a communication system grow in number, the communication system becomes more complex. For instance, if the receiver is an organism, as the number of its cells increases, the likelyhood that individual cells will join together to take up specific tasks increases. The greater the number of parts in a communication system, the more possible interactions between all the parts of the communication system. When a system becomes more complex, it may develop the ability perform more tasks.
When a person describes a communication, they usually do so specific to a particular system, or source of information. Some means of description are more useful than others or **, and a lot of this depends on how well a person can observe all the parts and behaviors of the system. This is why, for describing how much raw inforation travels between ** and **, we can use very complex mathematical formulas, graphs, etc. to represent the amount of information, how it travels, what happens to it when it is received, etc., but if we describe a communication between a person and a picture, **
If I collapse interpretation into a linear series of transformations of information from one representation into another, then I have simplified my description of interpretation as a whole, but sacrificed accuracy because I have not shown how information is processed by all the mechanisms or organic components involved in the processing, or shown all the types or variations or facets of information that is produced. In other words, I am describing how ** along the surface features of a communication system, or how it _appears_ to be communicate, or **. Because, in the case of the human mind , **, then *.an amoeba floating in a water-filled petri dish, air, and incandescent light; a machine, like c.d. player, etc., interpreting already programme instruction, etc...
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