Synthetic telepathy sounds like something out of Hollywood but it is absolutely possible, so long as "communication" is understood to be electrical signals rather than words.
For this project, communication is understood as the imparting of information and meaning through speech, technology, body language, and signs.
Under diffusion, an early communication of the innovation is understood (i.e. in the model of Rogers (1995)) followed by the physical diffusion of innovation in the market.
Once this is understood, communication strategies can drive realization and motivate current supporters as well as the enlistment of additional volunteers.
At the Body Farm, they are in the business of giving people back their identities, of listening to what someone has to say even after their corporeal self has vanished and their mode of communication has shifted and is understood only by a select few.
True communication occurs when one's message is understood by others, and they can respond in kind".
Patients also requested or consented to family members' care acts through non-verbal communication, which was understood and reacted to better by families than by healthcare professionals as the latter were occupied with performing urgent lifesaving care tasks and thus experienced time pressure.
But in Japan, silent films were still being made because audiences were used to the kind of communication that could be understood with visual cues as opposed to language.
This cyclical learning process is different to methods used in traditional health education or even 'behaviour change communication' models, but must be understood and respected by implementing organizations in order to support community mobilisation in the face of multiple local and external challenges.
As radiologists, we are sifters of information and artists of communication; these responsibilities must be understood for the imperfect processes they are.
So in some cases this kind of communication can also, in a more subtle sense, be understood as communication that respects autonomy.
