I don't know if it is correct either. However, I've had a hard
   time finding something that doesn't analogize to communication.

   Example:
   We're communicating at present. [time-delayed, but close enough
   to present].

   When I'm thinking a thought, I'm communicating with myself
   internally.

   When I'm looking out at the world, and absorbing it through my
   senses, I'm communicating with what's around me.

   It doesn't mean all communication is two-way. Does nature know
   I'm watching? Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't. Depends how
   deeply you take quantum woo stuff.

   But it's still communication.

   Communication doesn't mean understanding either.

   Two people can fight. Talk totally past each other. Completely
   misunderstand and misrepresent the other. But - what do they
   have in common?

   The process.

   That's the thing that makes communication the closest thing to
   purpose.

   If I am a baby, and I cannot see well, and I grasp onto the
   nearest thing like what turns out to be my mother's hospital
   gown, I am communicating with that gown by grasping it and my
   brain is gaining knowledge and comprehension through the
   grasping.

   Grasping new concepts through metaphors and analogies works
   similarly - likely hence the same word. Grasping ideas. It's a
   form of eating - yet more than eating because communication
   implies the POTENTIAL of a two-way situation. It might not be -
   people praying might be talking to somebody - might be talking
   to nobody - I honestly have NO IDEA what's happening.

   But still, they're communicating.