I can't tell what point you're making. If what you are trying to say is that complexity really does account for the qualitative leap betweentransmissionand understanding, because emergent behaviours typically arise when a critical number of transactions occur within a limited set of rules and an unlimited number of nodes, why then I have to simply differ with you.

Most routine human behavior might be explicable that way, but there is definitely a range of human quality where something else is happening. Jaded materialism doesn't cut it when you get into such a range. There, you find things being created, and the dominant tones are aesthetics, justice, recognition, understanding, integrity, and a number of other things that are not just emergent complex behaviors. There you find states of high affinity between beings and very high-grade communication that opens up vistas of understanding and connection. Attributing these qualities to mere complexity (to my way of thinking) is degrading and inaccurate.

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