John Regalado

And...

Yeah, that was impactful.

And even before then, I've always kind of thought that it just makes so much sense.

Yeah, well, I'm sorry for your loss as well.

I don't know.

I think it was just profound, the level of grief I experienced.

I didn't anticipate myself grieving as hard as I did.

And that was sort of the emotional indicator that there was more weight to that life than maybe I had previously thought.

And because I had not grown up with pets, I had sort of dismissed pets as kind of or maybe abstracted them as sort of like more complex appliances.

Like, you know, not to sound too cold hearted, but it just the reality of their life hadn't really hit me.

And then when I there was an underwater, like an aquatic documentary I watched in college.

I just remember hearing the recordings of dolphins.

And this is something I'm actually really excited to for AI to maybe open up is it was so undeniable.

It was like the realization that alien life existed.

Yeah.

But it just exists underwater, you know, where it's like, wow, they're speaking.

There's so much obvious complexity in the languages that we're hearing.

And so it'd be great to see a moment where humans maybe start to decode a little bit of that language.

And it might even open up the interiority of some animals that we coexist with.

I think that could be a big reframe for how we think about life.