This is Part 2 of W. Rupprecht's German book on "Cognitive Communication" in its English translation by W. Lange.

Cognitive communication theory represents all fundamental components that play a role in communication in order to acquire knowledge and describes the dependencies between them, as many processes in nature and in social interaction can be explained in this way.

Part 1 on "Relations, Effects, and Types of Communication", a general and complete overview is available.

Part 3 "Relati...

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. Machine languages and natural languages spoken by people differ in that the signals of machine languages have sharply defined meanings, while the meanings of signals of natural languages are highly fuzzy.

Werner Rupprecht explains how vague meanings arise in the brains of human beings, and that, paradoxically, owing to s...