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To proceed along the framework being laid out for this works scope, it is necessary to envision as clearly as possible a conceptual model of the energetic properties of language. First, to define some often vague and hazy terms we will be using in the development of this information theory…
In a given dynamic system, chaos refers to the elemental unpredictability involved in the systems functioning. Disorder is a property related to entropy or the measure of absence of information about a system, or measure of the inability of a systems energy to do work. Energy, of course, is the ability to do work.
Envision if you will a 3-dimensional diagram, a spheroid of sorts whose core is most orderly, or predictable, and whose periphery is increasingly disorderly, chaotic, or unpredictable.
It has been argued elsewhere that evolution takes place in conditions that hone somewhere between these two orbits, where predictability and random disorder can combine the perfect conditions for naturally selected adaptation.
Now to apply this model to the context of communication, as I think we can, imagine a "semantic" juxtaposition. The assignment, and subsequent rendering of meaning to a set of coded symbols for example, with fixed unambiguous words at the core, and unintelligible babble at the periphery. Again, the domain of human languages operates somewhere in the flux between, where basic meaning are fixed but allow for recombination and freely chosen use within guidelines, but also subject to ambiguity or misinterpretation. Too far from the core and we have babble, to far away from chaos we have a closed dead system incapable of expressing the dynamic needs of its users.
As far as the relationship between energy and communication, this is nothing new. The system of codes that Morse developed shows an understanding of this phenomena, namely, that the least surprising letters needed the least energy to represent them, (the :e" being most common in English, and being represented by the shortest "blip". Hence we see a tendency towards energetic economizing and how it fits with this model of dynamic communication systems.
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