The book, “Mind in the Waters” has wonderful stories about cetaceans. My favorite bit of info about them is that when humpback whales go to Hawaii to give birth, they sing very long songs. Scientists have determined that they sing the same long song every year, with a new addition at the end each year. It’s like they’re teaching their history to their young and adding a new chapter each year. Fascinating!
I am Japanese and I really hate and shame that my country still let people hunt whales and dolphins!!! I love the ocean mammals and we definitely need to stop the people killing them...!!!!!!!! I am so sorry...
The saddest part about it all is they do it through a loophole by saying killing them is the only way to get the scientific research they need. The fact of the matter is Japan kills Minke whales because they taste the best.
READ HIS BOOK! He goes in to such great detail about these whales and their language there and also alot more about the dolphins aswell, and about freediving. Super interesting! It's called "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves"
I spent months hearing cetaceans on sonar watch on a submarine in the U.S. Navy. It almost seemed like you could hear the emotion in their squeaking and whining that occurred during the clicks and pops... I've heard them follow us as though they were playing also when a bottom sounding research vessel used active sonar forcing the Cetaceans to swim away with sounds of fear and pain... These creatures are truly incredible!
Have you ever participated in a grind? I’m curious as to how you actually kill the whales. Also your tradition of hunting is sustainable, unlike large scale commercial whaling
@@conorlarkin7135 sustainable or not it still shouldn't happen. Its like allowing humans to be hunted, but only a small amount because its "sustainable"
Ani Skywalker I agree that sustainability isn’t the only factor that should be considered. I think the most important factor is the method of killing and the animals cognitive complexity, which yields a greater capacity for self-consciousness and a more robust sense of fear, dread and suffering. I actually think that all commercial whaling should be illegal, but I think the cases of aboriginal whaling should receive special consideration. In the example of the Faroe Islands, the small size and isolation of the islands creates obstacles for food sourcing and therefore they rely on local small scale farming (in which animals are slaughtered regularly) and hunting. I have difficulty telling populations, ones that don’t have the ready access to food that people in more commercialized and developed regions do, to change their practices. However this debate about the Faroese practice may soon be moot as fewer and fewer people are consuming whale meat due to increasing levels of mercury in whales due to pollution, which itself raises another ethical question.
It's already happening, have you noticed how aggressive people are to vegans? It's ridiculous. If it was anything else it would just be an opinion, but vegans are challenging our morals and ethics by simply existing and the ego cannot handle it when the person's actions are questioned. Albeit this is a natural response to someone questioning your actions, it's just how the psyche works. I just wish people were more self aware and not just let their ego control them.
People are aggressive to vegans? It is to 99% the other way around where many vegans act like they found the only right way and they try to convert you every meal. I didn't saw once a meat-eating person even start to discuss about the topic with a vegan. It is always the vegans. (and I have no problem to talk about it but the way they talk is the problem.) The same way I don't have a problem to talk about religion.
Some people are not considerate when starting this conversation but we need to have it at some point. We are at a point were killing animals to survive is completely (for most of the world) optional at this point.
If you stop the video at 2:28, you can see the standing waves inside the spermacetti organ produce the horizontal bars, with a SPECIFIC vertical spacing, which is the identifier for each animal, due to the geometry of the organ. The vertical spacing would be absolutely unique for each whale, like a fingerprint. After the horizontal startup tones, the clicks start, and these are echo location. I'm assuming the picture is a spectrogram, with frequency on the Y axis, higher frequency on top, and the X axis is time, of one minute, showing a full communication cycle. A lot of the click modulation is coming from the pressure waves of the right nostril passage, below the entire spermacetti organ, causing it to vibrate with lateral standing waves. This is what causes the frequency modulation of the previously smooth horizontal frequency tones. The frequency modulation is very complex, since each front-to-back acoustic standing wave is being interfered with, by several up-and-down standing waves, caused by the vibration from the bottom side of the spermacetti organ. This modulation happens because the right nostril is a flat bladder under the entire width of the spermacetti organ. So, that is how the physical tone modulation is done, and that physical setup would make it easy to repeat, identically each time. So, what is the information content? The start is unmodulated, so that is saying "Hello, it's me". The modulated part of the left burst (the clicking) is mostly echo location. I count 24 high frequency clicks, which have most of the energy, which makes sense, as the higher frequencies will give better sonar resolution, when the echo bounces back. I think the real information of the message is the center part, where the tall frequency bands look somewhat like human speech on an oscilloscope. That is where the software could correlate with the actions of the whale who is speaking. Obviously, it is a blend of amplitude modulation, and frequency modulation. They could pack a LOT of information in a few seconds of that, since they are speaking in multiple tones, at the same time, compared to sequential human speech in one tone. Finally, the horizontal bars on the right side of the spectrogram are saying: "OK, that is what I had to say, someone else can talk now, this was me talking, I'm done now". So, the center of the spectrogram is the "speech" part, the horizontal bands on the left and right are formatting/Identification/echo location, and probably some political stuff, like "I'm dominant", etc. The formatting is like any computer language, where there is a protocol, with a header, main body that contains the message, and the end marker. You can see where the speech ends, the diagonals are like a person trailing off... "we'll that about does it for me, I'm done now"... that type of thing, like a slide whistle, an easy marker to listen for, so you don't interrupt someone while they are still speaking. The cool part would be seeing the slide whistle stop and go back down, and they would be saying "one more thing, I almost forgot to mention"... So, the center of the message is the juicy part, and probably each pod has their own dialect, with distant populations not able to understand each other. Best of luck with this research, it is so badly needed! ALL whale species must be saved from extinction, and brought back to their pre-industrial populations. I think Japan will be wiped off the map, by the planet, herself, for the horrific sin of killing these intelligent beings, who are probably far superior to us in every way.
That was my exact thought. When we discover that whales can talk like us, it’s going to bring the earth to a stand still. Like in the bee movie when the bee first spoke on the news.
The man makes an incredible point at the end... here we are as a society searching the universe for intelligent life, when we completely turn a blind eye to the intelligent life in our own backyard
This video totally speaks to me, brought me to tears. I said something about how we're exploring new lives and civilizations in space, yet we have them right here on our own planet and we don't even understand what they're saying.
Is there any update on his work? He mentions using the next two years to try and crack the code and now this video is 4 years old and I’m dying to see a sequel!
I like to imagine the whales are saying "friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend?"
They're probably like, "what are these little skinny baby whales doing out here all alone?" I hope we get to know them before we lose them. I think it would be really interesting to see parallels and differences between communities outside our species with intelligence that equals our own.
Intelligence that equals our own? Maybe you better look on man apes. Whales have much bigger brains, dolphins have 2 more lobes than we have. They took a different course through evolution. I guess we have not even started to grasp what their intelligence is like ...
@@arnonuhm4022 Agreed. It seems they're the original sentient beings. It boggles the mind to think of what they'd be capable of if we could communicate with them.
I think that what he said last is the most important part actually - if we are ever going to be able to communicate with an alien life form, starting here with communication with intelligent creatures can be seen as our tutorial level in this regard. How are we ever going to learn an alien language if we can't figure out what whales are saying? I mean: Human: *points to landed space ship* What do you call that? Alien 1: Alien 2: The opportunity for misinterpretations will be SO big.
MOUTHandHANDS We have subwoofers, thunder, loud and deep car exhausts, We've been feeling sound for as long as natural phenomena have been around. Having it be intense enough to raise your body temperature is pretty impressive though!
they're capable of producing 230~db sounds, which would straight up kill you. for context, NASA's Saturn V rocket was the loudest sound humans have ever created, at 204db.
I have been searching for this video for ages! I watched this over 2 years ago and I remember my amazement and wanted to share it with others. I have seen so many TED Talks about whales trying to find this one, not that I'm complaining, they're all very interesting. The part that stuck with me the most was his ending statement, powerful.
This is the most wonderful, incredible idea I've ever heard about! I'm in total love with this -- communicating with another species using actual language... if there was ever a spiritual experience, this is it. How can we follow this online? Does anyone know what's going on at present with the CETI Foundation?
@@CorePathway true but at this point pork is a staple food. With all the harm pollution does to oceans let’s not make them a snack too. Domesticated pigs are at least protected until they are killed
yup - the dolphins are saying this about humans... 'it's amazing, it's as if they're forming some sort of language. the grunts seem to be structured in some way.' 'i wonder if they're intelligent?' ;)
i just cried of emotion thank you amazing human cientist for doing this!you can saved them!and yes, they are much more than animals!they are here to heal and save us! since i started to meditated to listen them they comunicate with me and many many people though meditations of even dreams- so much more than human inteliigence(wich is not to much considering what we are doing to the earth). IN this quarentine we can hear them clearly! lets start it!if you need more info i can help it
To send an image or memory telepathically to another individual's mind is essentially the ability to create an illusion. That's fourth dimensional communication.
what if we brought woodcuts underwater with us that portray various objects familiar to the whales in relief so the whales can echolocate and "see" what the images are.
@Lady Mercy Odd thread. Holographic? So what's being implies is that the sounds are used for echo location. *to see*. An when they communicate they use the same sounds. So essentially they are sending pictures. Images to other whales? Intriguing concept. And plausible. Humans basically do the same thing in a sense. When I say a back of molboro cigarettes, your mind summons the imagine of a red pack of ciggaretts. When I say boat. Your mind summons the image of a boat. When you read this ^ whole paragraph, which is essentially sounds written as symbols. All the concepts and ideas are summoned into your head. With whales and dolphines though, because it is used as echo location as well as communication. *sight being inherently connected to speaking* they may indeed have a pictorial language. However their language may also be like ours. Sounds summon images. But Its not direct image telepathy. Things like concepts and ideas have no direct physical representation. If I say boat. If I say bad boat. Good boat. Dangerous boat! Dangerous boat? When vocalized these all sounds different as vocal inflection changes. If they are as smart as we want to believe. Then so too their clicks may change in pitch, OR there may be an entirely different sequence of clicks for each similar meaning. It really boils down too, can whales explain? Are they capable of explanation? Although maybe they have full blown visual telepathy. I'm honestly not a whale so I wouldn't know. Lol
I wish you and your people all the very best and hope that you have success...I too believe they are sentient beings with a communication system that at the moment is far, far beyond our understanding...
Very insightful how Matt Groening walk us through the studies that influenced his writing on the "Night of the Dolphin" Halloween Special. This should be added on some Behind the Scenes special or something
it's even more then that. Whales carry ancient memories and wisdom. By understanding their language, we will get access to it. So keeping them alive is more important then ever (apart from the cruelty and stupidity to kill them).
Where is the open source project using Neural Networks to discern patterns in various cetacean speech? If we had a data dump and network infrastructure, we could probably apply it to each species separately, as well as together to work out how it all goes. I don't see any such project...
WOW ..... how right he is! Why invest in the orbit or further away, if the good old thing is sooooo close, but again, destroyed by humans?! Nice footage, GREAT speach👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That was really amazing i agree 100% whales are fascinating to me also they have since i was a kid. Thank you so much for this video and all the ted talks in general keep up all the great work you all are doing in the 🌎 to open peoples minds ears and hearts 😉👍✌
After doing a little research on this topic of whales intelligence and consciousness. Some questions comes to mind. They have excellent memories and perhaps even record their history verbally. I wonder. Have we forgotten our origins but they have not? Do they remember humans before they left the seas? Have we ever been able to communicate with these creatures in the past? Curious thoughts that come to my mind.
I think that whale communication is over 99% telepathic because of their big brains, but the remaining primitive language that they use is 75% echolocation and 25% echolocation with identity recognition so they could tell who they are communicating with. This would be needed when they are hunting for example or even when they are "singing" songs.
I’m very interested in what their consciousness would feel like if one day we could interface with them with the help of future computing and if they have access to higher dimensional understanding
If we can crack these codes, and learn there language, it will help us learn how to communicate with the space aliens when they show up. Why can't the UN stop these nations, like Japan from hunting?
Yeah humans are so intelligent right? We go looking for intelligence in outer space yet we can't even stop and look at the intelligence in our own back yard. We can put a man on the moon but we can't even look after our own planet. Nah we're not intelligent. It's a joke and not a funny one.
Seeing as they can essentially see with sound, what if their language was somehow encoding visual information. Something like communicating images through sound?
If each click can encode a 3D image of an object (like a fish). Then a rapid set of clicks could literally be a 3D "holographic" video of an object. It's crazy to imagine, I hope more work is put into interpreting these signals and playing them back.
Reading through the comments another viewer said the same thing. Honestly i think were onto something with that idea. They see in pictures via advanced echo location. Why would they not also use the same thing to communicate at least partially or fully in "echo pictures" to others.
Like Tesla stated, if you want to know the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. We humans are on a different level of vibration and send out frequencies made from emotions from our thoughts. This is how animals "sense" us. Being a conscious human, whales understand that we are and have this vibration of communication. Only we need to learn to use our thoughts with intent to communicate with them which in turn will create a vibration to be sent forth to the whales. It is through imagination this is achieved.
Nature is amazing, but are those clicks sensing information or do they form a visual picture of the deep, cause he said they’re able to see better using echolocation than we can with our eyes.
I truly hope you can crack the communication code soon. The intelligence of these creatures is so underrated. Yes, everyone knows they're intelligent, but I really don't think they understand just how intelligent... also I think the Japanese know that these animals are smart, they just don't care. Remember they did the same thing to the people of their neighboring countries. Slaughter and abuse. Yes it was years ago but it is not forgotten. And no formal apology was made or any acknowledgement towards the crimes against humanity they caused. But anyways I digress... CETACEAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
I've always wanted to create an interface, and this would be fun for sea-world, with speakers, or "clickers" if you will, out in the ocean, connected via cables to a room or a hall in Sea-World where a computer program translates these click patterns to English, and people in the audience can speak with these whales, and the corresponding click pattern will be output through these speakers/microphone complex. And with triangulation and a giant world-map, the people can see exactly where the pod is that they are speaking to, and it will be great. It can be very primitive at first, like just a couple of click patterns can be translated, as they are figured out.. and we can grow from there.. eventually telling the whales, in their own language, "Hey, we are those little skinny guys that come from the surface.." "We are speaking to you, from the land, off of the California Coast".. And eventually, when we all get good at it, and program in the grammar structure, and have thousands of words, we can tune in at specific times, and talk to specific older whales, and they can tell us stories of the past, and of things past on through the oral, or click-oral" tradition, from long ago. We can ask them about philosophy and spirituality, squid hunting and if they have seen any under-ocean E.T. bases, ask them about other whale types.
What's really sad is that the type of intelligence that man has - the kind that can use language and be aware of itself - is the only one that's considered important, valuable, or deserving of respect. It's like when a small child believes that blonde hair is the best color, because he himself is blonde. The fact is it really makes no difference whether whales can communicate or share our type of intelligence. They still deserve respect, safety in their own habitat and help in conservation because they are a unique and threatened form of life.
Profound and true: Urth is a living mega-organism that sustains life in a vast dark cold vacuum. Trees are proto-neurons and many millions are consumed by destructive greedy monkey-man for fun and profit. Urth communicates with her analog mega-organism far far away and cetaceans are an integral (literally) component to conveying and receiving messages of sister Urths. Monkey-man has limitless greed and ceaselessly exploits Urth, a conservatory for all sentient beings. Urth’s health is in peril and she will shake monkey-man off her back just like she did with Dino (also limitlessly greedy). Interstellar guardians will ‘take care’ of everything else. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Tradition is nothing but a limit belief that creates and pass on to the next generation. It's a tradition doesn't mean it's rightful. I sincerely wish that they succeed in the project
If you are able to consider the Paranormal and Psychic abilities, you may be interested to hear that contact has already been made with "The Whalemind". One person who did so described it as being "blinding white light without location", which is essentially like the NDE and/or enlightenment, a state of non-duality, or as some describe it, "love". So the whales are like gigantic enlightened beings-- which should not be a surprise. Another insight is that due to its size, the whale body can be a repository for the energy of multiple (10 or so) dolphin souls.
You can even just feel the clicking through this video.. I actually had to turn the volume down as it was almost like vibrating my brain. I've never experienced anything like that..
The book, “Mind in the Waters” has wonderful stories about cetaceans. My favorite bit of info about them is that when humpback whales go to Hawaii to give birth, they sing very long songs. Scientists have determined that they sing the same long song every year, with a new addition at the end each year. It’s like they’re teaching their history to their young and adding a new chapter each year. Fascinating!
Yes sounds like a genealogy
I am Japanese and I really hate and shame that my country still let people hunt whales and dolphins!!! I love the ocean mammals and we definitely need to stop the people killing them...!!!!!!!! I am so sorry...
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There's horrible bastards all over the planet Chunklet74. Keep doing you.
FK YOU DORPHIN!!
AND FK YOU WHARU!!
Chunk, We can't stop killing ourselves, let alone animals.
The saddest part about it all is they do it through a loophole by saying killing them is the only way to get the scientific research they need.
The fact of the matter is Japan kills Minke whales because they taste the best.
READ HIS BOOK!
He goes in to such great detail about these whales and their language there and also alot more about the dolphins aswell, and about freediving.
Super interesting!
It's called "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves"
I spent months hearing cetaceans on sonar watch on a submarine in the U.S. Navy. It almost seemed like you could hear the emotion in their squeaking and whining that occurred during the clicks and pops... I've heard them follow us as though they were playing also when a bottom sounding research vessel used active sonar forcing the Cetaceans to swim away with sounds of fear and pain... These creatures are truly incredible!
That's an incredible experience. You're fortunate to have had that.
I am Faroese, and we hunt pilot whales. This really makes me question our tradition. Thank you for broadening my view of whales.
stop hunting pilot whales please thank you
Have you ever participated in a grind? I’m curious as to how you actually kill the whales. Also your tradition of hunting is sustainable, unlike large scale commercial whaling
@@conorlarkin7135 sustainable or not it still shouldn't happen. Its like allowing humans to be hunted, but only a small amount because its "sustainable"
Ani Skywalker I agree that sustainability isn’t the only factor that should be considered. I think the most important factor is the method of killing and the animals cognitive complexity, which yields a greater capacity for self-consciousness and a more robust sense of fear, dread and suffering. I actually think that all commercial whaling should be illegal, but I think the cases of aboriginal whaling should receive special consideration. In the example of the Faroe Islands, the small size and isolation of the islands creates obstacles for food sourcing and therefore they rely on local small scale farming (in which animals are slaughtered regularly) and hunting. I have difficulty telling populations, ones that don’t have the ready access to food that people in more commercialized and developed regions do, to change their practices.
However this debate about the Faroese practice may soon be moot as fewer and fewer people are consuming whale meat due to increasing levels of mercury in whales due to pollution, which itself raises another ethical question.
Ani Skywalker we already do. It’s called Genocide and Abortion (still genocide and infanticide).
Humanity won't be able to deal with the guilt it's about to face when we learn the extent of what we've done to other sentient beings of this planet.
Jack Humphrey so what
It's already happening, have you noticed how aggressive people are to vegans? It's ridiculous. If it was anything else it would just be an opinion, but vegans are challenging our morals and ethics by simply existing and the ego cannot handle it when the person's actions are questioned. Albeit this is a natural response to someone questioning your actions, it's just how the psyche works. I just wish people were more self aware and not just let their ego control them.
we will have to and we will
People are aggressive to vegans? It is to 99% the other way around where many vegans act like they found the only right way and they try to convert you every meal. I didn't saw once a meat-eating person even start to discuss about the topic with a vegan. It is always the vegans. (and I have no problem to talk about it but the way they talk is the problem.) The same way I don't have a problem to talk about religion.
Some people are not considerate when starting this conversation but we need to have it at some point. We are at a point were killing animals to survive is completely (for most of the world) optional at this point.
this is one of the most important TED talks I have ever watched
If you stop the video at 2:28, you can see the standing waves inside the spermacetti organ produce the horizontal bars, with a SPECIFIC vertical spacing, which is the identifier for each animal, due to the geometry of the organ. The vertical spacing would be absolutely unique for each whale, like a fingerprint. After the horizontal startup tones, the clicks start, and these are echo location. I'm assuming the picture is a spectrogram, with frequency on the Y axis, higher frequency on top, and the X axis is time, of one minute, showing a full communication cycle. A lot of the click modulation is coming from the pressure waves of the right nostril passage, below the entire spermacetti organ, causing it to vibrate with lateral standing waves. This is what causes the frequency modulation of the previously smooth horizontal frequency tones. The frequency modulation is very complex, since each front-to-back acoustic standing wave is being interfered with, by several up-and-down standing waves, caused by the vibration from the bottom side of the spermacetti organ. This modulation happens because the right nostril is a flat bladder under the entire width of the spermacetti organ. So, that is how the physical tone modulation is done, and that physical setup would make it easy to repeat, identically each time.
So, what is the information content? The start is unmodulated, so that is saying "Hello, it's me". The modulated part of the left burst (the clicking) is mostly echo location. I count 24 high frequency clicks, which have most of the energy, which makes sense, as the higher frequencies will give better sonar resolution, when the echo bounces back. I think the real information of the message is the center part, where the tall frequency bands look somewhat like human speech on an oscilloscope. That is where the software could correlate with the actions of the whale who is speaking. Obviously, it is a blend of amplitude modulation, and frequency modulation. They could pack a LOT of information in a few seconds of that, since they are speaking in multiple tones, at the same time, compared to sequential human speech in one tone. Finally, the horizontal bars on the right side of the spectrogram are saying: "OK, that is what I had to say, someone else can talk now, this was me talking, I'm done now". So, the center of the spectrogram is the "speech" part, the horizontal bands on the left and right are formatting/Identification/echo location, and probably some political stuff, like "I'm dominant", etc. The formatting is like any computer language, where there is a protocol, with a header, main body that contains the message, and the end marker. You can see where the speech ends, the diagonals are like a person trailing off... "we'll that about does it for me, I'm done now"... that type of thing, like a slide whistle, an easy marker to listen for, so you don't interrupt someone while they are still speaking. The cool part would be seeing the slide whistle stop and go back down, and they would be saying "one more thing, I almost forgot to mention"...
So, the center of the message is the juicy part, and probably each pod has their own dialect, with distant populations not able to understand each other.
Best of luck with this research, it is so badly needed! ALL whale species must be saved from extinction, and brought back to their pre-industrial populations. I think Japan will be wiped off the map, by the planet, herself, for the horrific sin of killing these intelligent beings, who are probably far superior to us in every way.
The HAARP Report please pin this it’s extremely valuable information
"Wow!! You speak Whale!?" ~Dory 💙
they need u badly if they haven't already decoded the clicks.
subbed instantly to your channel btw
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Wow
Killer closing line, kudos to James Nestor. We are not the only intelligent species on our planet.
Oh please let this project work, and may grants and funding flow!
This is like the Arrival movie but with more purpose
Porpoise*
_Paws_ nice
Floppy Trombone Nice lol
Exactly
That was my exact thought. When we discover that whales can talk like us, it’s going to bring the earth to a stand still. Like in the bee movie when the bee first spoke on the news.
I’ve been fortunate enough to swim with these magnificent animals in Dominica, a memory that will remain with me forever. Priceless....
Do you have to be an experienced diver to do that? I'd love for the chance to have that life experience!
This project is the reason I still believe in humanity. I love whales with my entire heart! These beautiful mammals need to be save.
The man makes an incredible point at the end... here we are as a society searching the universe for intelligent life, when we completely turn a blind eye to the intelligent life in our own backyard
This video totally speaks to me, brought me to tears. I said something about how we're exploring new lives and civilizations in space, yet we have them right here on our own planet and we don't even understand what they're saying.
Is there any update on his work? He mentions using the next two years to try and crack the code and now this video is 4 years old and I’m dying to see a sequel!
I like to imagine the whales are saying "friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend? friend?"
Aaron Miller more like Killer, Killer, Killer, Killer
Aaron Miller I think their vocabulary is a bit more complex than that.
@@sarahndipiti nah man, they're whales
Maybe it's like in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where its questioning its existence
more complex than ours actually
"...it will be harder to kill an animal that can speak it's name."
Have you seen what humans do to each other?
Exactly
@Shufei exactly. If whales are as smart as he guesses they are maybe it's no mistake that we aren't able to crack their code.
True, but outside of extreme circumstances, we don't typically kill each other to eat each other.
Yeah, it's still harder to kill a child than a rabbit. His point stands regardless of whether we kill humans or not.
Well, murder is illegal
It’s 2 years from this video. I was actually really inspired by this video. Listening to the clicks was out of this world.
They're probably like, "what are these little skinny baby whales doing out here all alone?"
I hope we get to know them before we lose them. I think it would be really interesting to see parallels and differences between communities outside our species with intelligence that equals our own.
Intelligence that equals our own?
Maybe you better look on man apes. Whales have much bigger brains, dolphins have 2 more lobes than we have.
They took a different course through evolution.
I guess we have not even started to grasp what their intelligence is like ...
@@arnonuhm4022 Agreed. It seems they're the original sentient beings. It boggles the mind to think of what they'd be capable of if we could communicate with them.
@@arnonuhm4022 when your world is blue and dark and empty......its basically the same as having a 32 cores processor to open word
I think we were just lucky to evolve into a dexterous species
I think that what he said last is the most important part actually - if we are ever going to be able to communicate with an alien life form, starting here with communication with intelligent creatures can be seen as our tutorial level in this regard. How are we ever going to learn an alien language if we can't figure out what whales are saying? I mean:
Human: *points to landed space ship* What do you call that?
Alien 1:
Alien 2:
The opportunity for misinterpretations will be SO big.
To be able to feel that sound.. Wow
MOUTHandHANDS We have subwoofers, thunder, loud and deep car exhausts, We've been feeling sound for as long as natural phenomena have been around. Having it be intense enough to raise your body temperature is pretty impressive though!
JustinL42 I meant to say To be able to feel that* sound 😁
MOUTHandHANDS Right on! 😁
they're capable of producing 230~db sounds, which would straight up kill you.
for context, NASA's Saturn V rocket was the loudest sound humans have ever created, at 204db.
I’m pretty sure there clicks are louder than a nuclear bomb
My heart breaks when I think of what we have done to these magnificent animals.
I have been searching for this video for ages! I watched this over 2 years ago and I remember my amazement and wanted to share it with others. I have seen so many TED Talks about whales trying to find this one, not that I'm complaining, they're all very interesting. The part that stuck with me the most was his ending statement, powerful.
Whales and Dolphins are like humans of the Sea. I believe we are equal beings. spiritually they could be ahead of us.
Dolphins are definitely not ahead of us. They are amazing, but they're also kind of dicks. (I mean, so are humans, so I'm not judging).
This is the most wonderful, incredible idea I've ever heard about! I'm in total love with this -- communicating with another species using actual language... if there was ever a spiritual experience, this is it. How can we follow this online? Does anyone know what's going on at present with the CETI Foundation?
I am right there with you. I very badly want to be a part of this. This just feels so important.
truly Awesome! Thank you!!! My heart aches, and I thank you for your efforts to save these gorgeous and wonderful animals!!! Thank you!!
First contact with E.T. visiting earth
Human: Welcome, it is such an extraordinary...
E.T. ignores Human and dives into ocean to make first contact
Ever since I read The Uplift Saga by David Brin, I have watched for this kind of news. Whales are incredible.
I'm ashamed of my country Iceland for insisting on hunting these magnificent creatures. Time to let go of this barbaric practice.
😥
Welp, I do like bacon and pulled pork sandwiches. Pigs are smart too. Do you also find them tasty?
@@CorePathway true but at this point pork is a staple food. With all the harm pollution does to oceans let’s not make them a snack too. Domesticated pigs are at least protected until they are killed
yup - the dolphins are saying this about humans... 'it's amazing, it's as if they're forming some sort of language. the grunts seem to be structured in some way.' 'i wonder if they're intelligent?' ;)
i just cried of emotion thank you amazing human cientist for doing this!you can saved them!and yes, they are much more than animals!they are here to heal and save us! since i started to meditated to listen them they comunicate with me and many many people though meditations of even dreams- so much more than human inteliigence(wich is not to much considering what we are doing to the earth). IN this quarentine we can hear them clearly! lets start it!if you need more info i can help it
I've never seen such a powerful Ted Talk.
That would be amazing to be able to communicate with these wonderful animals.
Whaling=senseless killing.
Borderlands808 murder
Not if you eat the meat, use the oil, and bone marrow.
FXIIBeaver So as long as you use a person's bones and meat cannibalism is cool? The video clearly suggests they are intelligent, thinking creatures.
Plants don't grow in all places of the planet. What the rest of the world does with animals used for food isn't nearly as efficient.
Mateo Barrett not the same. But nice straw man.
Symbolic language? Probably. Pictorial language? You bet! One pic equals a thousand words? They send detailed pictorial images!
Leo Smith that = true
To send an image or memory telepathically to another individual's mind is essentially the ability to create an illusion. That's fourth dimensional communication.
What an interesting way to look at it, it could be possible and very mindblowing (to us)
what if we brought woodcuts underwater with us that portray various objects familiar to the whales in relief so the whales can echolocate and "see" what the images are.
@Lady Mercy
Odd thread.
Holographic?
So what's being implies is that the sounds are used for echo location. *to see*.
An when they communicate they use the same sounds. So essentially they are sending pictures. Images to other whales?
Intriguing concept. And plausible.
Humans basically do the same thing in a sense.
When I say a back of molboro cigarettes, your mind summons the imagine of a red pack of ciggaretts.
When I say boat. Your mind summons the image of a boat.
When you read this ^ whole paragraph, which is essentially sounds written as symbols. All the concepts and ideas are summoned into your head.
With whales and dolphines though, because it is used as echo location as well as communication. *sight being inherently connected to speaking* they may indeed have a pictorial language.
However their language may also be like ours. Sounds summon images. But Its not direct image telepathy.
Things like concepts and ideas have no direct physical representation. If I say boat.
If I say bad boat.
Good boat.
Dangerous boat!
Dangerous boat?
When vocalized these all sounds different as vocal inflection changes. If they are as smart as we want to believe. Then so too their clicks may change in pitch, OR there may be an entirely different sequence of clicks for each similar meaning.
It really boils down too, can whales explain? Are they capable of explanation?
Although maybe they have full blown visual telepathy. I'm honestly not a whale so I wouldn't know. Lol
Man that footage of humans killing those majestic creatures with harpoons really made me ANGRY
Yeah definitely horrific, I couldn't watch !!
I wish you and your people all the very best and hope that you have success...I too believe they are sentient beings with a communication system that at the moment is far, far beyond our understanding...
What's intriguing to to me is what if this whole time they are trying to communicate with us as the same we are with them.
Favorit Ted Talk of ALL TIME. Hope I get to meet you some day professor! 🐳🐋🐬
Very insightful how Matt Groening walk us through the studies that influenced his writing on the "Night of the Dolphin" Halloween Special. This should be added on some Behind the Scenes special or something
it's even more then that. Whales carry ancient memories and wisdom. By understanding their language, we will get access to it. So keeping them alive is more important then ever (apart from the cruelty and stupidity to kill them).
BRAVO !!!! BRAVO !!!!
GREAT INICIATIVE !!!
GREETINGS FROM BRASIL
Where do I sign up!!! I want to dive with these guys...i ve been practicing holding my breath in the bathtub...im up to 30 seconds!
Where is the open source project using Neural Networks to discern patterns in various cetacean speech? If we had a data dump and network infrastructure, we could probably apply it to each species separately, as well as together to work out how it all goes. I don't see any such project...
lol dont practice in a bathtub practice on dry land you crazy person! You could hurt yourself!
keep it up! i got up to FOUR minutes within a few weeks... but practice dry, you could drown...
Or the bathtub could explode in a supernova!!!
15-20 cm of water can do that.
Bathtubs is dangerous.
WOW ..... how right he is! Why invest in the orbit or further away, if the good old thing is sooooo close, but again, destroyed by humans?! Nice footage, GREAT speach👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That was really amazing i agree 100% whales are fascinating to me also they have since i was a kid. Thank you so much for this video and all the ted talks in general keep up all the great work you all are doing in the 🌎 to open peoples minds ears and hearts 😉👍✌
Inteligent life swimming right below out nose. Humans have built such a pedestal for ourselves.
This video should have a 1 billion views
After doing a little research on this topic of whales intelligence and consciousness. Some questions comes to mind. They have excellent memories and perhaps even record their history verbally. I wonder. Have we forgotten our origins but they have not? Do they remember humans before they left the seas? Have we ever been able to communicate with these creatures in the past? Curious thoughts that come to my mind.
We need sonic aerials that read their navigation signals as ultrasound images. They obviously use pictures of things to talk.
Thats actually very interesting. Hadn't thought of that, but it would make sense wouldn't it?
This guy is probably definetly onto something. 👆
Excellent video and presentation!
Those last words were very impactful. Any progress update on the language?
I think that whale communication is over 99% telepathic because of their big brains, but the remaining primitive language that they use is 75% echolocation and 25% echolocation with identity recognition so they could tell who they are communicating with. This would be needed when they are hunting for example or even when they are "singing" songs.
I’m very interested in what their consciousness would feel like if one day we could interface with them with the help of future computing and if they have access to higher dimensional understanding
If we can crack these codes, and learn there language, it will help us learn how to communicate with the space aliens when they show up. Why can't the UN stop these nations, like Japan from hunting?
Saddle Sore what a loving thought. May the space aliens bring much love and happiness to our lives.
Yes, it would be like a world wide Woodstock! Peace Love Dove!
Yeah humans are so intelligent right? We go looking for intelligence in outer space yet we can't even stop and look at the intelligence in our own back yard. We can put a man on the moon but we can't even look after our own planet. Nah we're not intelligent. It's a joke and not a funny one.
Seeing as they can essentially see with sound, what if their language was somehow encoding visual information. Something like communicating images through sound?
If each click can encode a 3D image of an object (like a fish). Then a rapid set of clicks could literally be a 3D "holographic" video of an object. It's crazy to imagine, I hope more work is put into interpreting these signals and playing them back.
Reading through the comments another viewer said the same thing. Honestly i think were onto something with that idea. They see in pictures via advanced echo location. Why would they not also use the same thing to communicate at least partially or fully in "echo pictures" to others.
@@isaiahphillip4112 I think your right.
James is a fascinating speaker and writer
professor dude hits blunt: we should talk to whales bro
Everyone should come together against the whale hunt. They are not even an unavoidable food source.
so whats the progress in the communication nowadays? About a year later
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION!!!
I am so touched by this video!
Like Tesla stated, if you want to know the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
We humans are on a different level of vibration and send out frequencies made from emotions from our thoughts. This is how animals "sense" us. Being a conscious human, whales understand that we are and have this vibration of communication. Only we need to learn to use our thoughts with intent to communicate with them which in turn will create a vibration to be sent forth to the whales.
It is through imagination this is achieved.
Nature is amazing, but are those clicks sensing information or do they form a visual picture of the deep, cause he said they’re able to see better using echolocation than we can with our eyes.
Ok so it's year 2020, what is the communication update? Any progress?
Absolutely stunning idea! I hope you succeed. Truly incredible research proposal
I truly hope you can crack the communication code soon. The intelligence of these creatures is so underrated. Yes, everyone knows they're intelligent, but I really don't think they understand just how intelligent... also I think the Japanese know that these animals are smart, they just don't care. Remember they did the same thing to the people of their neighboring countries. Slaughter and abuse. Yes it was years ago but it is not forgotten. And no formal apology was made or any acknowledgement towards the crimes against humanity they caused. But anyways I digress... CETACEAN RIGHTS FOR ALL!
Incredible work!
7:35 yeah this is big brain time.
Lately i been finding whales so fascinating! I never gave them ingerest growing up, but after hearing about their clicks i want to know more! ☺
I've always wanted to create an interface, and this would be fun for sea-world, with speakers, or "clickers" if you will, out in the ocean, connected via cables to a room or a hall in Sea-World where a computer program translates these click patterns to English, and people in the audience can speak with these whales, and the corresponding click pattern will be output through these speakers/microphone complex. And with triangulation and a giant world-map, the people can see exactly where the pod is that they are speaking to, and it will be great. It can be very primitive at first, like just a couple of click patterns can be translated, as they are figured out.. and we can grow from there.. eventually telling the whales, in their own language, "Hey, we are those little skinny guys that come from the surface.." "We are speaking to you, from the land, off of the California Coast".. And eventually, when we all get good at it, and program in the grammar structure, and have thousands of words, we can tune in at specific times, and talk to specific older whales, and they can tell us stories of the past, and of things past on through the oral, or click-oral" tradition, from long ago.
We can ask them about philosophy and spirituality, squid hunting and if they have seen any under-ocean E.T. bases, ask them about other whale types.
I live near where this took place! Marin County Northern Cali
Excellent, thank you for sharing.
THIS IS WHAT TED TALKS ARE FOR
We definitely should try really hard to talk back I didnt know the clicks were so complex. Cool video.
Thank this man.
It's not about saving it's about let them live and leave them alone. They will reproduce.
i think thats what he means, saving them from us
... so uh... saving them
What's really sad is that the type of intelligence that man has - the kind that can use language and be aware of itself - is the only one that's considered important, valuable, or deserving of respect. It's like when a small child believes that blonde hair is the best color, because he himself is blonde. The fact is it really makes no difference whether whales can communicate or share our type of intelligence. They still deserve respect, safety in their own habitat and help in conservation because they are a unique and threatened form of life.
Awesome presentation!
Any update on this?
It turns out that whales do have names, but the only name they give their children is Fred.
is there a follow up to this?
great presentation
Profound and true: Urth is a living mega-organism that sustains life in a vast dark cold vacuum. Trees are proto-neurons and many millions are consumed by destructive greedy monkey-man for fun and profit. Urth communicates with her analog mega-organism far far away and cetaceans are an integral (literally) component to conveying and receiving messages of sister Urths. Monkey-man has limitless greed and ceaselessly exploits Urth, a conservatory for all sentient beings. Urth’s health is in peril and she will shake monkey-man off her back just like she did with Dino (also limitlessly greedy). Interstellar guardians will ‘take care’ of everything else. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Tradition is nothing but a limit belief that creates and pass on to the next generation. It's a tradition doesn't mean it's rightful. I sincerely wish that they succeed in the project
6 years ago this video came out, he said hopefully within two years. Has it been created? Has it already been? Is it withheld from public?
Amazing, thank you.
These whales have great civilizations below water, believe me I've been there, they reached the moon one year earlier back in 1968.
you know actually this would be a first step on how will be able to communicate any future alien encounter by finding whale communication.
5:13 That's a nope for me
5:20-6:20 *HERE, HAVE A WHOLE OCEAN FULL OF NOPES*
This work is utterly beautiful and the harm we have caused, utterly devastating.
Bravo!! This is fascinating!
If you are able to consider the Paranormal and Psychic abilities, you may be interested to hear that contact has already been made with "The Whalemind". One person who did so described it as being "blinding white light without location", which is essentially like the NDE and/or enlightenment, a state of non-duality, or as some describe it, "love". So the whales are like gigantic enlightened beings-- which should not be a surprise. Another insight is that due to its size, the whale body can be a repository for the energy of multiple (10 or so) dolphin souls.
Mike Hoffman What is the whalemind and where can I read about it
@@SovietRosco Mind in the Waters : A Book to Celebrate the Consciousness of Whales and Dolphins
by McIntyre, Joan
I cried during that whaling clip😞
Liam Cahill did you cry like a woman? or like a little girl?
Me too!!
I couldn't see it. I'm starting to think there are times when I'm glad I'm blind.
Liam Cahill Do you cry yourself to sleep after 'Uncle Joey' touches you at night?
me too
This is like the best idea ever! Hope you succed!
he deserves a standing applause
You can even just feel the clicking through this video.. I actually had to turn the volume down as it was almost like vibrating my brain. I've never experienced anything like that..
Jesus Christ this was mind blowing
AMAZING!!
Its 2021 have they discovered somthing new?