Take a leap. Imagine that whale songs are communicating in a word-like structure. Then, what if the relationships that whales have for their ideas have dimensional relationships similar to those we see in human languages?

That means we should be able to map key elements of whale songs to dimensional spaces, and thus to comprehend what whales are talking about and perhaps to talk to and hear back from them. Remember: some whales have brain volumes three times larger than adult humans, larger cortical areas, and lower – but comparable – neuron counts. African elephants have three times as many neurons as humans, but in very different distributions than are seen in our own brains. It seems reasonable to assume that the other large mammals on earth, at the very least, have thinking and communicating and learning attributes we can connect with.

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