Could Dolphins teach us how to communicate with Aliens in the future?

I don’t think the point of the comparison is the sentience of dolphins so much as it is a study in how to communicate with a species with no common frame of reference.

@syz
Dolphins are fascinating for numerous reasons.

Have you watched star trek recently?

They are facinating and sentient, but not that smart.

@XOIIO
Actually I heard they are smart from people that work with them . I do not.

Oh, okay lol, because there is an episode exactly like that that I recall

We consider them very smart mostly because our standards are very low for an animal’s intelligence. If there was a person with a dolphin’s IQ, that person would be considered very stupid. Yes, they are smart, but not brilliant.

Since when is the IQ test the only meaningful measure of sentience?

No, you’re not going to learn how to communicate with space creatures in the future from a marine mammal.

Unlikely, and that’s before we get into the probabilities of aliens existing in the first place. We’ve been studying dolphins for years, pretty much along these lines, and have yet to crack – or indeed, find – such a language.

@PhiNotPi “Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reason. ” — Douglas Adams