Download or read book Noise Matters written by R. Haven Wiley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. Whatever its cause, the consequence of noise is error by receivers, and these errors are the key to understanding how noise shapes the evolution of communication.