Communication

1. The binding into a society of individuals, by the use of shared language and signs. The sharing of common sets of rules, for various goal-directed activities.

2. The dynamic process underlying the existence, growth, change, and the behaviour of all living systems (whether individual or organization), through which the organism or organization relates itself to its environment, and relates its parts and internal processes to one another. It is the communications that occur and the patterns of intercommunication which ensue that define and determine the structure and the functioning of any organization. The basic phenomenon of communication is that an organism (or organization) takes something into account, in whatever form it is presented (or not presented).