"While scientists have known for years that dolphins use a very complex language to communicate amongst themselves, the new findings suggest that they might be able to string together five-word sentences, and could even use a form of 'grammar' to influence meaning."
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/12/researchers-say-dolphins-speak-to-each-other-in-full-sentences/ On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:53 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > Frequency following response to clicks could be an evolutionary pathway to > acoustic transduction of neuron spikes. > > The neural generators of the *frequency-following response* (FFR), a > neural response widely used to study the human auditory system, remain > unclear...Supportively, topographic comparison between the FFR and the > auditory brainstem response (ABR) *evoked by clicks* revealed that the > topography of the F0 component resembled that of the click-ABR at an > earlier latency when stimulus F0 was higher and that the topography of the > H2 component resembled that of the click-ABR at a nearly fixed latency > regardless of stimulus F0, particularly for binaurally evoked FFRs. > Possible generation sites of the FFR and implications for future studies > were discussed. > > https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.00130/full > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 5:40 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Linguistic structure is undoubtedly present in the firing patterns of >> some subset of neurons in the human neocortex. Before I dismiss the >> plausibility of dolphin sounds being relatively direct transduction of >> neuron firing, I'd want to see what linguistic structure looks like in >> human neuron firing patterns and compare that structure to structures >> apparent in the acoustics present when dolphins are in communication. In >> particular, there have been cases where two dolphins were facing each other >> for enough time that investigators were able to lower a microphone between >> them and picked up focused acoustics going between them. This seems a good >> place to start looking. >> >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:59 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 10:57 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What is the next best thing to telepathy? >>>> <https://youtu.be/OJu4A_Rt6pw> >>>> >>> >>> Interesting they sound alike but it doesn't mean anything. >>> >>>> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* >>> / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + >>> participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery >>> options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink >>> <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te5067e2e110c2303-Me9b1c46bae007681b2132115> >>> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te5067e2e110c2303-M64a574e4bacf71e4bd458050 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
