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To go along the same liines as the above posts which make shed light on the roles of the coder and decoder, I want to look at music for a second as the passage of information that requires a need for interpreted by the listener. I find it interesting to explore how different people can potentially find different complex meanings within the same music, but also how it seems possible, like language, for certain variations in music to be generally interpreted in a similar manner. For example, there are certain combinations of tone which can translate to "happy" or "sad" or "violent" and it is interesting to explore what about our brain structure causes us to come to this interpretation - not necessarily universally - but for the most part generally. Maybe our brains are somehow hardwired to make this distinction based mearly upon differences in tone and cadence. I did some research and found some studies that mention that children as young as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat, happier song from among sadder compositions and vice versa. THis really was intriguing in the context of the transmission of information and the role of the receiver in that transmission. I think that our brain structure in all it's complexity has something to do with that, and how maybe evolutionarily our brains are wired to have these similar reactions since the decoding process can be seen so early in children. This summarization of the article is very interesting.. http://www.physorg.com/news143394074.html