As you likely know, Ted Nelson—he of hypertext fame—was also involved in the work of John C. Lilly on dolphin communication …
To them computering and animals speaking was all part of the Great Next Step in consciousness?
Are there any TiddlyWikians involved in such things?
Nelson on Lilly …
Lilly’s research on dolphins was in the early 1960’s.
Pretty soon TV, from 1963 on, was advancing the idea that Dolphins are intelligent and compassionate in TV programs like Flipper.
I heard that recently some LLM machine learning was having some success with learning other species communications.