AI Decodes Sperm Whale Language, Revealing a Complex System of Communication
But here’s what I think: If you are a company that creates artificial minds, wouldn’t you want to study a new kind of mind up close? If the Con Dao Sea Monster is smart, I bet DIANIMA wants to know how smart. How it works, and maybe how it got that way.”
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea
The Great Silence (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading)
I think that a better understanding of the umvelt of the whale—both in its expressive communications, but also its sensory reality—helps expand our understanding of what environmental suffering and damage is.