Re: is communication a requirement to collaborate?

> Is body language a form of communication? Or indirectly, seeing a dog wag
> his tail as his master emerges from the store? And furthermore, does it seem
> that these events communicate something to everyone who observes them? A
> one-to-many relationship.

That's all well and good.  But a bit is a bit is a bit.  If a computer
gets a digitized image of a dog -- just bits.  If a computer receives a
digitized command from you -- just bits.  It's all just bits.  Why is one
"seeing" and the other "hearing," beyond satisfying your desire to
anthropomorphize?

The storytelling is useful for intuitive leverage, maybe.  But otherwise 
-- what good is it?  That's what I'm asking.

As if I haven't polluted c.a.p. with enough of my babbling, I'm 
crossposting this there, too.  It feels relevant.

Anthony