RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Base Schema-channel

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

If the scope of HumanML is human communication, sensoryChannel 
describes the means of a human receiving information.

What is the purpose of communicationChannel?  What I wish to 
avoid is opening a very very very large abstraction that 
subsumes all manner of communication.

Channel may be sufficient.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]


a sensoryChannel would be a conduit for input information into a 
human object, i.e. an instantiation of the human element

a communicationChannel would be a conduit of message-bearing energy

a signal would be message-bearing energy (which we will still revisit 
in order when we get there, realising that it may be further refined 
by that time.)

While it would be possible to derive these from channel as it is 
written in the straw man, I think it would necessitate a third level 
of abstraction as a secondary base schema, so to speak, so what I 
propose is that we take the time to define some basic, if derived, 
elements to avoid a secondary base schema just for these top level 
derivations. I do think that these distinctions will turn up for many 
of our singular base elements.