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Talking to animals
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Do you think it would ever be possible to translate different voices from animals into English? Do you think this would be a good idea
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Great idea.
Problem would be in establishing common referent: when you say to me 'dog', I know we're talking about the same thing. When animals say 'dog', 'cat' 'ball' or 'red', we don't know they refer to the same thing as us.
I'm referring here to animals taught sign language/symbols.
Nice question, that'll keep me in thought for this evening!
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Great idea.
Problem would be in establishing common referent: when you say to me 'dog', I know we're talking about the same thing. When animals say 'dog', 'cat' 'ball' or 'red', we don't know they refer to the same thing as us.
I'm referring here to animals taught sign language/symbols.
Nice question, that'll keep me in thought for this evening!
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