Continuum of Communication

One concept that I feel could be talked more about was Kevin Vacarello's personal theory of a continuum of communication.  He made a simple chart on the board of a cone going from left to right (the conetinuum of comunication, and within this center of this cone, with an equal size from left to right, ran a bar which was labeled reality.  So in other words, at the short end of the cone reality encompassed almost the entire space of the cone, while at the large end, reality encompassed very little of the space of the cone.  Across the top of the cone was labeled different fields of thought starting from the most quantitative to the most qualitative (starting with math at one end and extending to metaphysics on the other).  The list of these he thought of when he was drawing the diagram went in this order: math, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economy, politics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy/metaphysics.  This meant that the more qualitative of the fields, such as math, portrayed mostly reality; the rules are set and there is not much variation in the real world.  While at the other end, fields like philosophy have interpretations of the world which go far beyond simply explaining reality.  Any space in the cone outside of the bar of reality represented the amount of interpretation of the world each field possessed.

This cone showed the varying levels of interpretation which can sometimes restrict communication, and can be overcome through understanding their relationship to each other.