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If they are projecting sonar images at each other, this would be much easier for us to determine than if they are using serial, syntactical language, right? Th
by lawpoop 11y ago
If they are projecting sonar images at each other, this would be much easier for us to determine than if they are using serial, syntactical language, right?
They may not be projecting shapes of actual objects, but if they are projecting shapes at all, it would probably be easy to record and reconstruct them visually for us to see, no?
I'm thinking if they so use 3-D sonar communication, they probably have a vocabulary of geometric symbols.
For instance, with our vocal apparatus, we can imitate sounds like "bark bark" or "buzz", but instead we say "dog" and "bee". This allows us to talk about things that don't make sound, including abstract ideas.
Perhaps they have 3-D geometric symbols, analogous to our words. Instead of imitating the sonar reflection of a school of fish, they might just have a shape that means "school of fish".
- pitchka 11y agoIt is a question of how they encode the image. Just like our eyes filter out most of the things and the brain reconstructs the picture, they might send compressed images that are easily reconstructed by their brains, but it takes effort to do it with computers. Eyes are easier because they take the image and compress it (or maybe they work on compressed sensing :D). Sending images via sonar can be accomplished by a time sequence that might not be equivalent to the representation of image, but to the brains of a whale it can be reconstructed into a coherent one.