Saturday, June 16, 2012

Inside the Mind of a Whale




'It would appear that we are more willing to consider the possibility of other intelligences on distant planets than we are on our own.'

Keith Howell, 'Consciousness of Whales', in Oceans, 55, vol.10, no. 4, San Fransisco, 1977.

5 comments:

  1. We are, after all, 'the pinnacle of creation' - yeah, right.

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  2. Food for thought. And your photos? Fab.

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  3. It's quite something, visiting the inside of a whale's skull. If you ever get the chance, try it out.

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  4. If you follow the theory of brain size (which is also what the girl anthropologist I blogged about recently was trying to demonstrate), then whales are far more evolved than us.

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