5 February 2026
The concept of "communication" encompasses very diverse phenomena. You can tie a dog and a cat together with a rope. There will be a connection between them. They will be dependent on each other. Similarly, you can tie two corpses together and throw them from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. There will be a connection, a communication between them.
Communication of such type is purely mechanical and is determined by the laws of gravity. Such mechanical communication ("connection," "contact") is also abundant in relationships between living people. True, this is not always evident not joyfully recognized.
It is not always a negative phenomenon, of course; it is often simply the basis of existence, which goes unnoticed, just as the existence of trillions of bacteria within a person goes unnoticed. But such a mechanical connection can be precisely communication, in which the other person is treated as an object. This is precisely the inhumanity of the relationship between slave owner and slave.
А slave, however, can rebel, unlike a corpse. However, his rebellion is not communication in the strict sense. It is a monologue. Here we come to the next type of communication. The second type of communication can be described as "biological communication." A plant, an animal, or a human sends an impulse ("monologue") and monitors the result.
This impulse may be necessary to seek warmth, light, shelter, water, food, reproduction, or entertainment. This is not a monologue in the strict sense—a monologue is merely a truncated dialogue.
Dialogue is precisely the type of communication specific to humans. Human self-awareness can be considered a "brain hallucination," but it cannot be denied that humans are capable of a type of communication that is absent—or, more accurately, has not yet been identified—in other animals, including humans' closest relatives.
This communication is far from merely verbal, completely unnecessary for survival and reproduction, "purposeless," "a-pragmatic." This communication doesn't always create community, but it also doesn't always create personality. This communication can also be a destructive force, generating "evil" in its specific human sense.
