There is a need to dispel the notion that communication involves the transfer of knowledge or information. As no two brains are connected, the best that communication can be is merely influencing someone else’s thought. Each person can only arrive to their own conclusions, which is why you cannot get a point across to someone when in conflict but can when there is mutual respect and cooperation. Herbert Paul Grice gave a lecture at Stanford in which he introduced the Cooperative Principle. He theorized that because human beings are rational, there must also be a rational explanation for how we converse with each other. The Cooperative Principle says that every…

In physics there is an elementary concept called Absolute vs Relative measurement. The gist of it is that Absolute measurement refers to the actual value of an object, for example, there are three apples, in this case we are measuring an object to itself. A Relative measurement means we draw a comparison between two different objects, ie. we are 3 feet apart, with both you and I being compared to get a value. The most relatable example is when we compare ourselves to other people, in order to gauge our success, status or value we almost always measure ourselves relative to someone else. Hopefully you have been told from a…