You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 month agoI was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Comes later.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can’t we just find a way to upgrade the earth animals instead?
We can have real furries that way
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Upgrade?
Have we even seriously tried opening dialogue with elephant or whale tribes?
I know we jacked off a bunch of dolphins we raised in captivity, but, like… Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes actually, we’ve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.
We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated “terms” but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just because we could talk to a whale wouldn’t make them a furry. They need to be anthropoidal to be a furry.
Machinist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And gave them LSD! Funded by NASA.
The Dolphin Who Loved Me.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we don’t need to make them sapient as well.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah, let’s do it.
Better to have practice right now than to commit the same mistakes when we meet aliens out there.
This planet is our cradle. Our place of learning. Our tutorial level.