Communication and the happiness filter
Why we communicate? As we agreed, communication is conveying a message and receiving a reply or another message in many forms more than the merely spoken or heard words. The transmission and reception take place for different reasons. The most basic functional motivation of which is either giving a piece of information or asking for one. Other activators for communication would be expressing a feeling, cheering for or being compassionate to other forms of living creatures not only humans, expressing an opinion with or against, giving a preprogrammed reply which is sometimes nowadays replaced by emojis 👌💓😓. Spontaneous reactions are when we don't process the input message enough to be fully aware of it and then issue a reply message. To be fully aware of a communication we need to ask ourselves on the 5 W's Who, what, when, where & why? Auto-replies pop up in other cases as when we reply a Good Morning or bless someone who sneezes, when we scream of fear or pain,...