Mark.g Switch

Alright - this will be a long project.

While I was falling asleep a few nights ago - my restless mind flash upon a consciousness and it is one of my Eureka moments. I have always try to refine this concept of Vulnerabilities of Communication but it is yet to be solidified. Now over here I am going to document what I have conclude thus far and it is very open to revision and reinterpretation. As you might already know - nothing is too refined to be considered complete with me. My philosophy is 'complete' is a journey not a destination.

Alright so let's get to the substance of my discovery.

There are several process of manipulating information that one goes through every single time one observe something and then document it in someway to someone else, type it on a blog, write it, chisel it on a rock, etc. One very simple example is a small girl who saw a lion doing tricks in a circus and then she recount it to her younger brother who was at home. Before I get to the detail, the my concept is simple all of this process is human controlled and human dependent so it is very different from individual to individual. However, it is also very nature-dependent, time-dependent, event-dependent, etc.

The key to this concept is in this processes of manipulating information.

First there is a Fact. This is not so much a process but more so like a starting point - it is an EVENT. When something happens it is what I call a fact. Like the example of this little girl - the lion doing tricks jumping through hoops is the fact. This is the resemblance of RAW unedited information. Most of the time this is an external event like a dog chasing a car, the newspaper drop on your floor, someone stepped on broken glass, etc. Fact is RAW unedited information.

Second is Absorption stage. Absorption is the process of taking those raw information into you. This is done by your five senses - smell, taste, touch, sound and sight. It is a process of inputting information into you. For the chase of the girl - if she is sitting front row then she can see and hear the lion jumping into the loops. She is absorbing facts from her senses.

The third stage is Interpretation. Interpretation is the process of concluding all of this information by your senses and make to know what you are observing. Interpretation will harness your mind - it will cross reference all of the information you just absorb and make relevance of it by cross referencing with the information you already have stored in you.

The fourth stage is Storage. Your memory is where this archiving takes place. This is simple and straightforward. Storage is retaining what you absorbed and what you interpreted.

The fifth stage is Recall. Recall is retrieving those information stored in your memory. What you saw, see, smell, hear, what you think, what you felt, etc. It is the act of collecting from within.

The sixth stage is Translation. Translation focuses on your language side of your mind. It is an attempt by your mind to convert those information that you have recalled into tangible words to be recounted. This is not an external process like it sounds but is still internal. Now, this is not only limited to speech but also you gestures, demeanor, behavior, etc. As they say body language.

The seventh stage is Converse. This is a process of reiterate what you have concluded during translation and recount it to the external. It is an act of writing on a piece of paper, speaking to someone with powerful gestures, etc.

All of these seven stages seem very simple but it is the fundamental of communication. The vulnerabilities of the process is that every single stage ARE open to errors and as these errors are compounded through the rest of the processes downstream. Since the processes are in series - garbage in is magnified and you get a bigger garbage in the end. The more errors there are in each process the bigger these mishandling of information will be at the end of the seventh stage....

Let me end it abruptly as I want to continue this idea later on when I solidify more of its concepts.