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I'd say having a meaningful conversation with a dolphin would be a much bigger mindfuck. For all we know we could be discussing how the transition to Kantian p
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'd say having a meaningful conversation with a dolphin would be a much bigger mindfuck.
For all we know we could be discussing how the transition to Kantian philosophy played out slightly different for them in a few years.
- bitwize 14y agoDr. Irene Pepperberg has had meaningful conversations with an African Grey parrot. It was pretty cool. It gives me hope for a future of being part of a society with other sapient species in it. But it wouldn't be quite the "whoa, on large enough scales the universe _really is_ the same, everywhere" type feeling that humans having meaningful conversations with, say, Fookin' Prawns would.