Searching for Language in Dolphins - Cracking the Code | Stories of Impact

Searching for Language in Dolphins - Cracking the Code | Stories of Impact | Denise Herzing

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3 жыл бұрын

Understanding language is a major obstacle in recognizing the diversity of intelligence across species on Earth. Do other species besides humans have language? How would we recognize a nonhuman language if it existed? And how might we begin to not only assess the structure and patterns of signals, but interpret the meaning of nonhuman communication signals?
Denise Herzing's project seeks to find linguistic richness in the vocalizations of dolphins. This would represent nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we understand diverse intelligence. Learn more about her Templeton World Charity Foundation-funded research: www.templetonworldcharity.org...
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@solosailor222 3 жыл бұрын

This needs NASA level Funding. I thought this was “discovered” already. That the language has a ‘header’ and ‘end’ which is the dolphin's name, and the one targeted for the message, similar to our packets in computer language. The middle is confusing still, but is postulated to be images, probably descriptions of sonar, therefore its VERY difficult for humans to even start to comprehend. Alex the Parrot could do math and speak english. Orangutans can use sign language. So why are ‘we’ still so far behind, while actively looking off-planet? We can’t even talk to the ‘aliens’ here on earth yet.

@markus9415 3 жыл бұрын

Orcas even have a seperate part in their brain dedicated to language and emotion, which us humans don't even have. Twice the neurons of the human brain. That should already give a good indication for researchers how intelligent they actually are and how little we know. There is a small percentage of geniuses amongst them just like with humans. Nature is indeed still our best mentor for a few million years to come.. "If you look deep into nature you will understand everything better" Cheers.

@bigpp6933 3 жыл бұрын

@@markus9415 enit like who cares about aliens honestly they dont even live in our galaxy ffs if they can see earth it's only starting to form

@markus9415 3 жыл бұрын

@@bigpp6933 You're barely making sense. Orca's are aliens ? Please work on your reading comprehension...

@artemislogic5252 2 жыл бұрын

nah fuck nasa

@WTFiamabanana 2 жыл бұрын

@@markus9415 Big PP is agreeing with you dumbass. Work on YOUR reading comprehension.

@RandomYT05_01 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you could legit be a friend to a dolphin in the near future.

@colonelcorn9500 Жыл бұрын

Pog

@micahrobles5210 3 жыл бұрын

The audio is insane. I could feel the dolphin sounds between my ears and it felt like something physically vibrating inside my head. Cools video for sure.

@kekero540 2 жыл бұрын

“What would a dolphin find so interesting about a human.” We’re literally their equivalent of space aliens wtf you talking about I’d be interested af if a space alien named Steve came by and took a gander at me.

@daveythesearcher 2 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh like mad & your so right too 🤣

@brandonporter6223 2 жыл бұрын

How would they know his name's steve?

@theesotaricitalian6338 Жыл бұрын

Orca are dolphins aswell and can change their language to talk to other dolphin species. That absolutely blows my mind. I wonder if different dialects between them are so different they can not understand each other at first

@danielballesteros3016 7 ай бұрын

I have the same doubts: it would very interesting to could answer this question.

@Nerojett 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's just a case of changing their frequency to match like we would to find a different radio station

@danielballesteros3016 6 ай бұрын

@@Nerojett I believe it is this way in fact they change also when they feel dangers as sharks. It seems they have a lot on common : look wholphin

@basedmathh 3 жыл бұрын

This is good practice for learning how to speak with aliens.

@WillyOrca 9 ай бұрын

No its not lol. That's called mathematics. Also, here's a little ooftonium, we can't even communicate effectively with members of our own species if we speak different languages, and CANT communicate effectively with ANY other species at all. What do you think the chances are that you'll be able to effectively communicate with something that doesn't even belong to the same biological tree as us using language lol? Math would about the ONLY universally recognizable/translatable symbology. In our current evolutionary form, with the limitations of the human brain our only real hope of communicating effectively with an Alien species would be if THEY'VE already solved the problem of figuring out how to speak to US.

@chrisbenevento4092 9 ай бұрын

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

@meisterklasse30 6 ай бұрын

@@WillyOrcaYou do realize math is an abstraction just like language is? From what we’ve seen most intelligent species will have to be communicating somehow and somehow possess some emotional framework. How can a civilization become a highly technical civilization without at least those two things at least?

@zacharysherry2910 4 ай бұрын

@@WillyOrcachill out Willy. The comment is as correct as 1+1=2 (if that's understandable).

@TheAlison1456 8 ай бұрын

She doesn't study the communication of dolphins, she studies their communication systems. Very important difference. This is really cool though.

@Ymch809 2 ай бұрын

I didn't want this video to end

@TemplarX2 3 жыл бұрын

This would be the greatest breakthrough this century. With AI this could be possible. I love this woman work. I don't understand those 22 dislikes? Are those from religious fanatics?

@ellenamontana1352 3 жыл бұрын

I don't get the thought process between your reasoning of why you think a religious person would not like this.

@silverkip2992 3 жыл бұрын

@@ellenamontana1352 it is a common concept for some Christian branches that humans are the only intelligent beings on earth and all animals were created by God for us to rule over.

@artemislogic5252 2 жыл бұрын

probably the japanese

@user-jc6ek5tg1o 2 жыл бұрын

@@ellenamontana1352 Religious fanatics and religious people is different. The fanatics just shove their beliefs into everyone's faces and cannot comprehend people defying the bible.

@brandonporter6223 2 жыл бұрын

People dislike videos, I don't know why in every comment section of every video you have somebody who's confused by that :P Just ignore it. If you enjoyed the video does it really matter if someone clicked a button that says they didn't? Its a great video, don't let other people's opinion bother you.

@0x_Proxxy Жыл бұрын

It might be a proto-language? Like, the cetacean equivalent of the proto-languages that humans had. I mean hell, it ain't like WE suddenly just started talking in a completely structured language with grammar and rules one day. It builds up. So, perhaps this is something that is happening here? Idk

@stonedalldayjedi533 3 жыл бұрын

Mom dolphin to calf: "come here baby!" Male dolphin to female dolphin: "come here baby!" Other dolphin shouting his own name:"DJ KHALED!"

@LS-qu7yc 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it xD

@MrCharlesdick 2 жыл бұрын

use those sounds to make words and sentences equivalent to english, or some other language. then teach the dolphins that language. then ask them any questions you want about how they communicate in the wild.

@MrFlameRad 2 жыл бұрын

Problem is we have no understanding of how the information is carried in the sounds, so we'd have a hard time making up our own language with their sounds, it may be irredeemably nonsensical to them because maybe they just don't parse ideas and concepts the way we do

@RM-xr8lq Жыл бұрын

it will take a while before humans build any software capable of processing dolphin communication as well as a dolphin brain can, but AI should help keep in mind that dolphin brains can also be appending extra metadata onto the communication that these researchers are not considering (such as positional and directional processing, altering communication based on temperature/pressure conditions, dialects, etc.) so if AI is not processing enough of the necessary input (as much inputs as a dolphin brain is processing), it will not figure out the answer edit: 6:36 glad to see they are starting to consider such aspects (social context in this case)

@ThomasPalacio10 Жыл бұрын

Let’s work on this project. Right here in the comment section. I say we leave a huge mirror in the water and see how they act. The mirror would be enough to attract them, the camera could stay for days. We’d get new foot gage and new behaviors …

@slthenny 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video , very informative on the progress on dolphins

@user-nq7um9pb1r 2 ай бұрын

Communicating with them instead of hunting them down and killing them. ❤ With earth dolphins as with the cosmos dolphins we may come to find. Nonhuman intelligence on erwth but more than that... Nonhuman capacity of suffering on earth... At our mercy...

@californiakayaker Жыл бұрын

I've ordered your book as I am extremely interested in this subject and may study it on my own.

@thehumanmachine6121 Жыл бұрын

if we do manage to decipher dolphin language then i would really like to have a philosophical debate with one.

@Apistevist 5 ай бұрын

What's the point of walking around fighting gravity when you can float?

@jeffreyschwarz3699 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how a dolphin and an orca would communicate if both grew up together in the same environment.

@ispinola Жыл бұрын

Wow so cool! I hope we are closer!

@Joe-vg1rb 10 ай бұрын

Dolphins are smart. I saw wild dolphins off the deck of a boat I was on amd when we cheered they did more elaborate tricks and were more noisy. So they understood we were watching and began showing off, we were interacting socially imo 😂👍🏻

@jeffreyschwarz3699 2 жыл бұрын

How many sounds do they make and do any of their sentences ever repeat?

@emikobcat 2 жыл бұрын

I think only difficulty is that simply we can't talk under water like dolphins or whales. And I wonder if Denise speak other languages. But on land, we or at least I speak fluent English cat language and English fox language; basically ordinary English and my cat and wild fox family who visited in my garden for many years understood everything I told them. I told a young fox cub to watch me garden and s/he sat down immediately. I was little surprised but only for the cub's cooperation. I also understood what they told me by vocalisations and body language. I am designer/artist/gardener/creative thinker/doer/bilingual. Scientists often over analyse nature but in everyday reality we can communicate with wild animals as we open our minds and hearts as equal beings in respect and love. I haven't had opportunity to swim with wild dolphins yet but I have some confidence I can be friend with them. By reading the book by Dr Horace Dobbs' Follow The Wild Dolphin, people can develop friendships with them without 'language' or 'conversation' or 'debate' rigid scientists think necessary. Sure, most dolphins are more considerate than some humans to protect swimmers from shark or rescue drowning or pregnant women and foetus and playing is notion of higher intelligence from boredom.

@SeaOracle 3 жыл бұрын

💓💓💓

@sethuraj7122 2 жыл бұрын

Iam fisher man, dolphins is very dameged my net what to do please tell me

@askjeevescosby2928 Жыл бұрын

How do you know If each pod has its own language.

@Gabriel20245 Жыл бұрын

what about if we create a mechanical suit that allows dolphins to walk move and grab stuff and we put baby dolphins in there and let them grow up in those suits since their childhood?

@feLdct 3 жыл бұрын

♥️

@daveyboon9433 11 ай бұрын

Have you tried asking them what something means?

@IgorUsePro1347 Жыл бұрын

Damn hopefully in the future I can invite my dolphin buddies to burger King and bowling

@kaantok16 Жыл бұрын

Status update?

@Thedrysurrealbloke Жыл бұрын

I think they can talk its are job to understand them.

@javierhillier4252 2 жыл бұрын

They probably think we are Aliens

@meetontheledge1380 Жыл бұрын

They probably think humans are crazy and very dangerous, but that some (like this lady) are possibly an opportunity to communicate and ask for a little mercy.

@jackOffOnJill 10 ай бұрын

@@meetontheledge1380 so long and thanks for the fish

@meetontheledge1380 10 ай бұрын

@@jackOffOnJill 🐬

@meetontheledge1380 10 ай бұрын

@@jackOffOnJill Hitchhiker's Guide!

@samuelmiensinompe4902 2 жыл бұрын

Self awareness is not..NOT a factor of higher intelligence. Understanding that your reflection in the mirror is your self and not another individual is a proof of superior intelligence, but not in any way, shape or form a proof of self awareness at all. You can be self aware and not know about what a reflection is all about. Example.... Fish are social beings. They have personalities, and form territorial ground areas, as well as defending themselves from other fish and getting angry at other fish for taking their food, stuff, or territory, they also have status within groups, and fight for top status within their group. ...... You have to be completely self aware to care about yourself, defend yourself, own territorial grounds, have a personality, and be concern about being top dog within your group. Not recognizing yourself in a mirror only proves you can’t understand reflections of yourself. How can you be some place else then in you? Therefore, it must be another fish. And humans are intelligent at certain subjects, but we are dumb at certain others. No brain is intelligent at everything. We have dark spots in our intelligence, where other animals have not.

@TemplarX2 2 жыл бұрын

Are people really self aware though or is it just the illusion of awareness? Have you ever stopped and asked yourself where thoughts come from? Once you ask yourself this question, quieten your mind and you'll realize you have absolute no control over them. They are like bubbles which depends on what you perceive or of the previous train of thoughts through a sequence. They are input dependent like an AI. From example if you ask me what is 1 + 1. I answer 2, because of the current inputs and previous learned input but I haven't summoned the answer using free will. It's basically like a dream but the computations are more accurate when awake. Your memories are not some innate thoughts, but stored inputs that can be corrupted just like a computer. Self awareness does not exist only the illusion of it.

@samuelmiensinompe4902 2 жыл бұрын

@@TemplarX2 Well, some people may do math in a none reasoning manner, some of us reason math. Most humans indeed, reason based on the way they were thought, which is just like AI, which is why it is so difficult for average people to change their minds about issues such as racism, animal rights, bigotry, prejudice. But this is not really self awareness. Self awareness is being aware of your own experiences as you are having them. This factor is joined with instinctive values to care about your self, defend your territorial grounds, get angry at others for mistreating you, compensating those who treat you well ether with love, gifts or both. Being envious, jealous, and such. It is about being aware of your existence. Intelligence or the way you perceive reality is a different subject. Intelligence can give not self awareness, but a better understanding of how the material world works, this is why many self aware beings can’t understand mirror images and some can.

@TemplarX2 2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelmiensinompe4902 I understand what you are saying but this is all an illusion. You are not really aware of anything. This becomes apparent when you stop and tell yourself what should I think next. You are being bombarded by inputs at all time and your brain must make sense of it. It is an illusion machine that tries to translate the real world. So self awareness is an oxymoron from my POV. You are basically reacting to inputs, whether internal (memories or instinct) or external but you are not generating that illusion of awareness without those inputs. All occurs at a noticeable frequency too. In that regard the illusion of self awareness cannot be possibly be that unique. A chimp for example should be capable to think and plot in a rather political manner.

@samuelmiensinompe4902 2 жыл бұрын

@@TemplarX2 yes, but you are confusing self awareness with intelligent thoughts. Awareness is just being aware of the moment. Being aware of what you think it is happening. It is about connecting with reality in a manner that you know you are alive and here. If someone who loves you is treating you badly at a party, while treating everyone else nicely, you get jealous. Knowing what is happening to you during that moment in time is what made you jealous. So you were jealous because you are self aware.

@TemplarX2 2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelmiensinompe4902 I kind of agree but the two concepts are related in their procedural mechanism. They are both interpretations/computations of the translation/illusion machine, that is the brain. We are not really conscious. We are basically advanced "NPCs" (if you are familiar with this term) with the illusion of consciousness, intelligence and self awareness. Free will absolutely does not exist. All outcomes are already known on a macro level I could technically predict word for word what your response might be next if I had an advanced enough prediction algorithm.

@dmwm771 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if it would help to ask also an animal communicator who has a sense for the animals and their energy and then combine their thoughts with the AI analysis.

@maxzorin2812 3 жыл бұрын

I have to admit that Dr. Herzing’s statement "we don't know if dolphins have a language.." took me completely by surprise and in all honesty I suspect some disingenuousness in the statement.

@artemislogic5252 2 жыл бұрын

why disingenuousness

@themarinefan 2 жыл бұрын

@@artemislogic5252 because she implies that everyone commonly believes dolphins don't communicate but that is furthest from the truth.

@artemislogic5252 2 жыл бұрын

@@themarinefan i think most people just see dolphins as animals and dont see them as sentient with their own complicated language

@themarinefan 2 жыл бұрын

@@artemislogic5252 then most people are Mongoloids even the most moronic guy I know agrees dolphins do "dolphinese" or "dolphin speak"

@Dumbledoresarmy13 2 жыл бұрын

Communication doesn't necessarily mean 'language'. Sentence structure and grammar is more than say, growling to communicate aggression, whining to communicate pain, and wagging tail to communicate excitement. Even simply having terms assigned to objects isn't enough to constitute a language because the language is the larger system, not just vocabulary. I would say she's basing her statement on a more specific definition of language, not using it as a synonym for communication. Because obviously she knows (as we all do) that dolphins communicate with each other in some way or she wouldn't be pursuing investigation into whether that vocal communication is a language.

@dmwm771 Жыл бұрын

I also wonder what the Dolphins need to communicate. Thinking completely new why the dolphin would make a sound and what he or she tries to gain from it. In the end, sound is a tool.