Humans are considered as social beings, because they greatly interact with one another. The Primary means of forming and maintaining social relationships is by communication. Therefore, it plays a huge role in building and maintaining bonds with each other. Apart from non-verbal communication methods, such as body language and sign language, for every other way of communication, a language is used. In other words, language facilitates almost all means of communication, regardless of the fact that it is spoken or written.
Even though the process of communication is taken for granted, as we are trained to communicate from the very childhood, it indeed is a complex procedure. When a person wants to communicate a thought, he must first convert his thought in to words, and then speak it out. Then the receiver must listen to the words and convert it back into a thought. We might think it is an effective way of communication, as this procedure happens in a fraction of a second.
However, following are some disadvantages of this way of communication, despite the fact that it has been the usual method of communication for centuries;
Language Barrier
In the present way of communication, a language must be used as a medium to transmit thoughts. For effective communication, people involved in the interaction, must be able to understand a common language. For example, this fact makes harder for a Chinese to communicate easily with an Indian. Of course, they can use hand signals or get the help from a translator, but it won’t be very much effective.
Conversion
As I have mentioned before, when communicating verbally or in writing, first of all, the person must convert his ideas into words. Sometimes this conversion might be troublesome, as some of the thoughts are difficult to turn into words. Specially, when we are speaking in a non-native language, sometimes it makes harder for us to find the right term to describe our idea or thought. Even in the native language, some complex feelings or ideas are hard to put in to words.
Tip of The Tongue Problem
We all have faced this problem at least once in our life. When we are talking about our childhood friend, we know the name of that person, our mind can see him, but the word doesn’t come to the mind, it is just hanging on the tip of our tongue.
Interpretation
True that, there are definitive meanings for each word. But how one person perceives a sentence can be different to another. In conversations, this issue can result in conflicts. A rather hilarious example is when Jack says to John, “We should get married”, it can be interpreted as Jack wants both of them to get married to women or he wants to marry John.
Even though not much thought is given to these problems, at some point we all encountered such difficulties. You might just have shrugged those off saying what can we do for it.
But let me introduce my idea which can completely eradicate these problems and have a far better effective communication. It is called “Thought Communication”.
“Thought Communication”, simply is a process of communicating ideas or feelings just by sending the thoughts from one person to another, in its raw state, without any medium. Through communicating the raw feeling or the raw thought to another, will eliminate the problem that I have mentioned above. With the absence of a language, language barriers will not make communication hard. And the information, that is being lost in the process of conversion of feelings to words, will be preserved in this process. Hence it can be concluded that the thought communication is far superior to conventional verbal communication.
However, it must be noted that, still there is no proper technology developed for the successful communication of thoughts. But given, if enough effort is applied, it won’t be an impossible task. I hope someone reading this article will use my idea to come up with a right technology to enable “Thought Communication” or spread my idea to the people who are capable of doing so.
