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Sinergy -> RE: Are people real on this site (10/14/2006 6:11:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: gypsylee
dunno about everyone else but i'm a hologram.
Hello A/all,
There was a really fascinating article in Scientific American a few months ago about non-human intelligence.
The example they used were octopi.
Apparently, an octupus will wander up to a crab and do a rainbow light show with its ability to change colors on its skin. The crab has a "huh?" moment and in that time the octopus strikes and kills it.
Octopi will cross on the tips of their tentacles, pretending to be seaweed, between two weed covered rocks underwater by imitating their colors. This imitation is so true to life they follow shadow patterns as they move.
They will sit on a seaweed colored rock for hours and look exactly like the seaweed around it, changing to fit the dynamics of the light in the area (nightfall, cloud over the sun, boat passing overhead, etc)
The author of the article was entranced by them. But what made the article so fascinating was him pointing out how human beings tend to be focused on verbal / written communication. So what if we encounter a super-evolved intelligence that uses hologram or image based communication instead of words?
Which is not to imply that you are an octopi, gypsylee. I wont tell anybody that you are secretely an advanced form of intelligence come to earth to spy on us. Your secret is safe with me.
Just me, could be wrong, etc.
Sinergy
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