Complexity is to be measured not by the length of the message but by the work carried out previously. The meaning does not arise from the information in the message but arises from the information discarded during the process of formulating the message, which has a specific information content. What matters is not saying as much as you can. It is thinking before you speak. The more information, the longer it takes to create a ZIP archive.
Nonconscious compression sands down all the rough edges found in the original.
A message has depth if it contains a large quantity of exformation. Exformation is the history of the message, information the product of that history. The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions that take place simultaneously during conversation in the heads and bodies of the conversers. The Bandwidth of Consciousness What we perceive at any moment is limited to an extremely smart compartment in the stream of information about our surroundings flowing in from the sense organs.