• TheWoozy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are made of meat! They blow air through their vibrating meat tubes to communicate. So gross!

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      “We’re supposed to talk to meat?”

      “That’s the idea. That’s the message they’re sending out by radio. ‘Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?’ That sort of thing.”

      “They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”

      “Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”

      “I thought you just told me they used radio.”

      “They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

      https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html