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SEVERAL CLASSIC BOOKS FROM THE HEYDAY OF THE "SCIENTIFIC" STUDY OF DOLPHIN/HUMAN COMMUNICATION,
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This review is from: Lilly on Dolphins (Paperback)
John Lilly (1915-2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst, and philosopher. He was also the inventor of the "sensory deprivation" tank, and---most important for this review---a pioneer scientific researcher in attempting to communicate with dolphins.
This book is a revised edition of three of Lilly's previously-published works: Man and Dolphin, Advantures of a New Scientific Frontier (1961); Dolphin In History (1963), and The Mind of the Dolphin: A Nonhuman Intelligence (1967), as well as several other papers, etc. In the Preface to the earlier book, Lilly boldly proclaimed, "Within the next decade or two the human species will establish communication with another species: nonhuman, alien, possibly extraterrestrial, more probably marine; but definitely highly intelligent, perhaps even intellectual. An optimistic prediction, I admit." Interestingly, he adds in a footnote, "This prediction was made in 1960; in 1975 it has not yet transpired. I am returning to work with interspecies communication to try a new way of approach. Maybe, by 1980, we will know, one way or another." "Man and Dolphin" dealt with Lilly's St. Thomas Laboratory (on the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean) that operated from 1960-1968. It details his interaction with individual dolphins (such as "Lizzie" and "Baby"). The "Mind of the Dolphin" deals much more in-depth, and details the much closer living arrangements that transpired between humans and dolphins in the later research. The book concludes on the note, "They are eminently trainable in their body movements, swimming, coming to a given place, and such behavior as moving objects from one place to another. The present experiments show that they are also eminently trainable in the vocalization and acoustic spheres. The next step, a long one, is demonstrating that the dolphin can meaningfully use these sounds as we use language and speech." One can buy lots of books---often with a "New Age" orientation---about "spiritual" communication with dolphins (e.g., Dolphin Connection: Interdimensional Ways of Living; Dolphins into the Future; Dolphins, ETs & Angels: Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences), but Lilly's books were written when there was still great optimism about the SCIENTIFIC possibilities of such interspecies linguistic communication. The ultimate results were perhaps disappointing, but the work was nevertheless fascinating.
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