Complexity of Data

In addition to different media of communication via various senses, they could also be categorized in terms of the biological aspects. They could be divided into implicit and explicit non-verbal communication. The former were changes in a person that were non-muscle in nature; i.e., they were not movements in the body caused by the muscular system. To put more simply, they were, for example, not caused by moving a muscle in the arm.

These changes included variations in body temperature, heart rate, perspiration, and respiration. Non-verbal communication could also be thought of as voluntary and non-voluntary.

With so many facets and aspects of non-verbal communication, categorizing it in his head when he recorded it mid-fight was extremely important.

Thus, one of the most important requirements of the system of thought for Project Telepath was categorization and organization.