communication linearization

Is the phenomenon in which minformation is transformed into a linear form of information in order to be communicated.

minformation of any topic is a cloud of connected and nested meaning unit that structurally resembles a graph that lives in our minds (a map of meaning).

During a communication, we force the minformation into a marshalling process in order to be transmitted as spoken language or written language. The communication receiver then needs to go through a unmarshalling process to map the information into its own map of meaning.

In the analog world we are limited by linear medium of communication for how we can express and this inertia has made linear medium of communications the default, even in the digital world.

While in the digital world is possible to represent complex graph structures we don’t do it to represent the minformation that expresses our map of meaning.

In fact, we don’t event attempt to express our map of meaning outside our minds because the existing tools are not sufficient and because not even an approximation has ever been doable, we don’t even conceive its possibility.

This translates in the fact that through all of the human history all information have been expressed in a linear fashion, and therefore having to provide all contextual information in order for information to make sense to the communication receiver.

Providing contextual information in a linear fashion is extremely inefficient. Because it the exact map of meaning of the communication receiver it is guaranteed that it will force unnecessary information while missing other.