Dr. David Bashwiner

So it really is church.

I ended up figuring this out, but like church is like the best training for musicianship.

It's really weird.

Yeah.

Okay.

So there's many animals that don't hear.

We talk about insects for a second because they're like not related to us.

Meaning hearing evolved in insects separately from how it evolved in vertebrates.

And it evolved like a bunch of different times in insects.

So many of them have ears on their legs or on their body parts.

The praying mantis has ears like in its abdomen.

And that derived from pressure sensation, from being able to sense substrate vibrations with their leg parts.

And then it ends up getting sensitive to sound.

So if you imagine if we're a species and you are, let's say we're praying menaces, and you start being able to detect substrate vibrations as sound in whatever way, then I can start signaling, I can start making substrate vibrations.

And

manipulate you in mammals, especially if you're my infant and I can manipulate you to help you sleep, to help you focus so you can learn things.

So if you look across all animals, right, this has to be super general, but there's sometimes when things seem like with most animals, it seems like they all have something that's like speech.

And even with fish that have only like three possible types of vocalization,

Like there's a fish called the midshipman that I spent a lot of time like researching.

And it has a hum vocalization where it goes.