Dr. Poppy Crum

It's how fast does that moth react?

If it has to question, you know, or if it were cognitively responsive instead of being deterministic in its behavior, it wouldn't escape, right?

But it gets away.

Two things, and you can watch me sing to a spider on a TED Talk I gave a few years ago.

We'll put a link to it.

Okay.

And no, so maybe this comes back to I have absolute pitch, so I know what frequencies I'm singing.

But I also recognize by having absolute pitch, I know my brain is just a little different.

Again, you asked me what threads drive me.

It's always been we do experience the world differently, and I believe that our success, everyone's success,

And the success of our growth as humans is partly dependent on how we use technology to help, you know, improve and optimize each of us with, you know, the different variables we need, right?

So different species and how they respond to sound is very interesting to me.

And as much as you...

I know, Andy, you look at how different species respond to color and to information in the world, be it cuttlefish or such.

I have jellyfish, too.

And I can see how they, you know, their pulsing rates change with their photoreceptors when they, you know, with different light colors.

It's very obvious that some clearly make, you know, that they are when they're under stress versus when they're in a more calming state.

And so it's like understanding the stimuli in our world that shape us, those changes is a huge part of being human in my perspective.

In this case, this happens to be an orb spider, the one I sing to.

And when I hit about 880 hertz, you will see the spider kind of dances.