Quotes About Transmission

The information in a message equals the negative of the probabilities that you can predict what will come next every step of the way. The easier you can predict a message, the less information the message contains.

If information processing and transmission is common to both psyche and soma, the mind-body problem might be reformulated as follows: How is information, received and processed at a semantic level, transduced into information that can be received and processed at a somatic level, and vice-versa? That sounds like a question that can be more sensibly addressed than the one it is meant to replace.2

By which we mean nothing "mystical." It is now known that many physical energies radiate from the body, and that even chemical effects can be transmitted (experienced as emotional "vibes") from one person to another, the chemicals acting as stimuli to trigger neurotransmitter actions in the second person. ~•~

Pero no se comprende tan claramente cómo semejante ritualización es en el hombre fruto de la transmisión histórica de un pueblo, mientras que en el animal representa un desarrollo filogenético de formas de movimiento innatas y hereditarias.

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words themselves will be corroded too.

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that the words will be corroded too.

La Iglesia católica ha sobrevivido durante siglos, no por transmitir un «gen del celibato» de un Papa al siguiente, sino por transmitir los relatos del Nuevo Testamento y de la Ley canónica católica.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

But I can communicate with you via this small metal contraption (like an old television set): I see your mirrored face and hear your voice; you receive my daily messages and the reflection of my image.

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

is a little-known fact that nearly 95 percent of communications traffic between continents—including e-mail, phone calls, videos, and financial transfers—travels not by air or through space but via underwater fiber-optic cable—close to one million miles of it. And the demand is growing.

In the 1990s, reports began to roll in from New Caledonia, a small island in the South Pacific, of crows that fashion their own tools in the wild and appear to transmit local styles of toolmaking from one generation to the next—a feat reminiscent of human culture and proof that sophisticated tool skills do not require a primate brain.

I told Vivvie what the person who'd answered had said, verbatim.

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

Nous conservons pieusement la légende selon laquelle la transmission se fait « verticalement », d'une génération à la suivante, au sein des familles, des clans, des nations et des communautés de croyants ; alors que la vraie transmission est de plus en plus « horizontale », entre contemporains, qu'ils se connaissent ou pas, qu'ils s'aiment ou se détestent.

Whom do we speak to, and how do we encode our messages? How can we be heard or read, even after we are dead?

To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone.

There is minimal scientific evidence to suggest the Covid-19 virus is transmitted on football pitches in fresh air, so let's not play roulette with our young people's physical and mental well-being any longer.

If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

In fact, he'd bought it to impress me, pretending he couldn't drive manual transmission in order to spend more time with me while I taught him.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.