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The Universal Translator - How to Talk to The Dolphins, Crickets, Elephants, or Aliens
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This is a mind experiment.
Some time back read about how Dolphins might be interpreting their echo
location as actual images in their brain. Not being inside of a Dolphin, I
don't really know how they experience their environment, then again, I don't
really know how I experience my environment either.
but -
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see a lot more of our environment?
If we just had the right sensors and the conversion matrix to translate the
energy that is around us into some form that we can understand, wow what a
rush.
We would hear whistles, clicks, and many sounds from energetic actions
translated into the audio range. Meteors entering our atmosphere is one
that comes to mind.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast19jan_1.htm
http://www.k5kj.net/meteor.htm
http://www.fathom.com/course/10701056/
http://www.dolphinear.com/data/dolphin_echo_location.htm
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/BonyFish/senses.html
http://www.hawaii.edu/HIMB/sharklab/research/kajiura.html
So put on Geordi LaForge's visor.
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http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/2460/crew/laforge.htm
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Born blind due to a birth defect. Wore VISOR from 2340 to 2372 (advanced
optical sensor that allows him to see outside human visible spectrum). By
stardate 50893, received ocular implants to replace VISOR.
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An article in SCIENCE NEWS back in September of 2001 showed one more different way of
SEEING. Put an output stimulator on your tongue and see the input from a camera.
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http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Seeing+Tongue-a078681631
The Seeing Tongue
In-the-mouth electrodes give blind people a feel for vision
by Peter Weiss
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When we go to space we will need to SEE many events that would normally be
outside our normal experience.
Who of you will develop the next new sensors for translating the energies in
the surround into images the you can SEE?
Think about what you might be able to SEE as you read the poem I wrote.
See below. :-)
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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The Universal Translator
Or
How to Talk to The Dolphins,
Crickets, Elephants,
Or
Aliens
The sound goes around.
To and fro it bounds.
I can see for you and me.
A picture for me,
A sound for thee.
How does a picture sound?
Can I send it around?
Would you hear in your ear,
What I see and fear?
How does it sound?
As I send it around?
My picture in sound.
What does my mind see?
What does my mind hear?
Just a wiggle and a squiggle,
An itch and a twitch.
Something in motion,
Much like the ocean.
It wiggles and squiggles,
With ups and downs,
And motion all around
Is it sound that rebounds?
Or the motion that goes around?
What is it I see?
What do you hear?
Is it by ear?
Or by bone?
Do I care how I hear?
What is it I hear?
But a motion applied to motion,
The difference I sense.
The vibration goes around
and it comes around.
Having seen what was there
Being modified by air
Do I really care?
If it is by air.
Could be from afar?
Or just from a jar?
This sound that went around.
How does it rebound?
When it goes around.
I send and I see
What comes back to me.
How does it differ?
>From what I send.
Does that tell me,
Where it has been?
The sound goes around
With a wiggle and a squiggle.
And an added jiggle.
What does it do,
For me and for you?
One day I'll see
What you have heard
And you can hear
What I can see.
What goes around
And comes back sound
May go around
And come to me,
As something to see.
The shrimp it clicks
The insect stamps
A shriek, a bellow
Over there, over here
A sensor, a sensor
Feeling this vibration.
To be in tune,
To listen to the moon,
In an afternoon.
A vision to see,
Using the medium
For free.
How do I see?
What does it mean for me?
Just a translation.
>From a vibration,
To an elation.
Its motion all around.
How does it vibrate?
How does it shake?
What information
Does it make?
The background,
All a twitter.
The background,
All around.
The noise,
How gray.
The noise
What does it say?
To enhance the dance
And see the prance.
The lights they play
What do they say?
A vibration against the white
A sound in the night
A magnetic push
A gravitational pull
How do they differ,
>From the background of all?
What information from around
When pushed and pulled by the sound?
A blare, a flair,
In the air, I don't care.
In the water, it's a medium,
In the ether, no tedium.
Radiation, it's the difference that counts.
How it wiggles and how it bounce.
A throb, a bob
A wiggle, a squiggle.
How it differs, because of the surround,
Is what goes, and comes around.
What differs from expectation,
Is what makes for information.
The play on the gray
Extracted today
Is what went,
And came back,
With information
On this and that.
Be it magnetic or electrostatic
It's the wiggle and the squiggle
That comes around
With information on the surround.
So where are you immersed?
And in what are you versed?
Can I change my wiggle,
To match your squiggle?
So that what I sent around
Come to from the surround.
It's the difference, that extra jiggle
That has information to make you giggle.
>From its sound
And image to see,
The medium is different
For you and for me.
May I transform my jiggle
To be heard as a giggle?
So what is seen from light to me
Is heard in the sea, an image for thee.
The difference applied
To light from aside,
May for me
And image be.
How do I see?
What does it mean for me?
Just a translation
>From a vibration
To an elation
An image to see.
Copyright May 28, 2001 by L & S Robotics, Larry Kellogg
Edited April 9, 2004 - LRK -
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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