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by sethammons 406 days ago
How would you define communication between two entities? What threshold of data needs to be conveyed? Can communication be unidirectional?
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Well data needs to be conveyed, as in there has to actually be a message. If one person yawns and that causes you to yawn, that is not evidence of communication - the first person was almost certainly not trying to send any information and you received none. Mimicking another's arm movement could be just as meaningless.