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As we look at two life units in communication we can label one of them “a” and the other one of them “b.” In a good state of communication “a” would outflow and “b” would receive, then “b” would outflow and “a” would receive. Then “a” would outflow and “b” would receive. Then “b” would outflow and “a” would receive. In each case both “a” and “b” would know that the communication was being received and would know what and where was the source of the communication.
All right, we have “a” and “b” facing each other in a communication. “A” outflows. His message goes across a distance to “b” who inflows. In this phase of the communication “a” is Cause, “b” is Effect, and the intervening space we term the Distance. It is noteworthy that “a” and “b” are both life units. A true communication is between two life units. It is not between two objects, or from one object to one life unit. “A,” a life unit, is cause. The intervening space is distance. “B,” a life unit, is effect. Now a completion of this communication changes the roles. Replied to, “a” is now the effect, and “b” is the cause. Thus we have a cycle which completes a true communication. The cycle is cause, distance, effect, with effect then becoming cause and communicating across a distance to the original source, which is now effect, and this we call a two-way communication.
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