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Re:Dolphins Call Each Other By Name by mtrimpe on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @06:21PM (#5254075)
I'd say having a meaningful conversation with a dolphin would be a much bigger mindfuck.

For all we know we could be discussing how the transition to Kantian philosophy played out slightly different for them in a few years.

Re:Dolphins Call Each Other By Name by bitwize on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @06:47PM (#5254229)
Dr. Irene Pepperberg has had meaningful conversations with an African Grey parrot.

It was pretty cool. It gives me hope for a future of being part of a society with other sapient species in it.

But it wouldn't be quite the "whoa, on large enough scales the universe _really is_ the same, everywhere" type feeling that humans having meaningful conversations with, say, Fookin' Prawns would.