• spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
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    20 days ago

    lol no. Not in the absolute sense. Language IS NOT IN ANY WAY, “unique to humans”. Period. Ever.

    In fact, there have been a few recent studies that show whale language is as complicated as Chinese.

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      18 days ago

      What about the one where the Japanese guy isolated the bird language words for “danger, snake!”, then played it on speakers to wild birds, which caused them to panic and start looking around for the snake.

      One of the most convincing experiments showing that animals have language that I’ve seen. The video is on YouTube

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      19 days ago

      A random arrangement of grains of sand is more complicated than Chinese.

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        18 days ago

        A random arrangement of my shit is more complicated than your brain.

        Your opinion means less than nothing.