A Consciousness-Based Model of Communication by Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey

USP Model at a Glance

A colour-coded map of how consciousness turns private insight into public meaning—and how listeners return the favour.

1. Two Conscious Ladders

• Potential Sāhṛdaya α (left panel) climbs from green stimulus up to pale-blue Vaikharī, turning inner spark into an audible/visible message.

• Actualised Sāhṛdaya β (right panel) descends the same colour steps in reverse—receiving, parsing, then rehumanising the signal into lived experience.

Rehumanising turn: the model highlights every place where conscious insight (amber & blue layers) is required—something an AI (purple) simply bypasses.

2. Semantic Activation (dotted gold arrows)

The golden bar labelled “Abhidhā – Lakṣaṇā – Vyañjanā” feeds each Madhyamā.

• Abhidhā: direct pointing (“tree”).

• Lakṣaṇā: contextual extension (“the White House” refers to the U.S. government).

• Vyañjanā: aesthetic or emotional suggestion (poetic undertone).

These semantic powers animate both speaker and listener simultaneously—hence the mirror-image dotted lines.

3. Hermeneutic Feedback Loop (solid blue curve)

Once β-Rasa ripens, a large blue arrow sweeps back to α, landing on the light-lavender “Revisions” box.
The listener’s consummated meaning interrogates the speaker’s earlier layers.

Inside the box two mini-loops show bidirectional tug-of-war:

This is hermeneutics in action: dialogue refines both what we see and how we say it.

4. Agency Shift Band

A faint beige bar under both ladders announces: “β becomes new α.”
Any listener who reaches sky-blue Pasyantī can spring into speech, restarting the left ladder. Real-time chat, classroom debates, Twitter threads—all live here.

5. AI Node and the Rehumanising Contrast

The purple Algorithmic Agent drops a purple signal directly into β-Dhvani.
It looks like communication but skips every colour step associated with awareness.
Placing this shortcut beside the human ladders dramatises what only consciousness supplies: intuition, holistic insight, revision and Rasa.

6. Why Rasa Matters

The coral-rose box is the end-zone of understanding. Rasa is not mere “emotion added on”; it is the felt adequacy of meaning. When Rasa is satisfied:

1. β’s internal world resonates with the message.

2. Hermeneutic feedback can fire authentically—critique grounded in experience, not guesswork.

3. Agency shift becomes possible; the listener is now equipped to speak with integrity.

No Rasa, no genuine dialogue—only data transfer.

7. Using the Diagram

• Educators: Walk students through each colour; pause at the Revisions box and ask, “Where in group work do we allow this?”

• Designers: Keep AI in the purple lane; mark every hand-off to a human ladder for ethical review.

• Researchers: Map EEG or fMRI events onto colour stages—test where the spark (Pratibhā) and burst (Sphoṭa) occur.

• Writers & Speakers: Before publishing, run your draft through the right-hand ladder—does it gift the reader a clear Rasa?

Take-home Sentence

Communication is not a one-way pipe but a colour-rich spiral in which consciousness lights the path, machines feed the channel, and Rasa seals the human bond.

Licence. © 2025 Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey. This diagram and its explanatory text are released under the Creative Commons Attribution–NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-ND 4.0). You may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided you give appropriate credit and do not remix, transform or build upon it.