Amanda Scott

flaky, frankly.

And yet the evidence of it, once you start looking at it, it's huge and undeniable.

And the last thing I want to say is something I learned recently.

I was on a group gathering with some people in South Africa who are using drones to look at whales and they played.

I didn't see it, but everybody who came away, I was on a different workshop, everyone who came away was like, wow, this is amazing.

A female sperm whale giving birth, surrounded by a circle of other female sperm whales because the young cannot breathe yet, and so they take it in turns to lift it up to the surface.

So it can breathe because the mother's exhausted, she's just given birth.

And around the outside is a circle of killer whales holding them safe.

And nobody knew that had happened until we had the drones that could take the pictures because how would you?

And so it seems to me so much of the connection, we are assuming that, let's say humpback whales, these amazing songs are talking to other humpback whales.

And they may well be talking to many, many, many other species that we don't know about.

So I just wanted to put all that into the air.

And how do we connect with other species in ways that are not simply treating their language as computer code?

People are putting lots of money into it and lots of AI power.

Given how much we don't understand even indigenous human languages, the Arbutaba, I had no idea, but the First Peoples of Australia don't have subject, verb, object.

They just tack together multiple, multiple subjects in one great big long word that arises in the moment and then is probably never heard again and that their eyes shift around.

So even within humans, the construction of language is radically different and we probably...

struggle somebody domesticated in white western linear language struggle struggles to connect with the much more connected of its place of its time within space and time language of an indigenous person how in heaven's name are we going to connect with with a whale that lives in a three-dimensional space where it's it can move and sing and connect and vibrate and see

Yeah.

What do you think of us?