Humans have not yet…

“A scientific observer is unequipped to be neutral unless he studies brain evolution in the human species and the brain evolution of other species. Until an observer has learned the structure of his own central nervous system and how it operates, where it came from, and compares it to that of other species, he cannot adequately understand his relative position on the planet Earth.”

“As we show in more detail elsewhere in this book, the Cetacea have demonstrated a capacity to survive far longer than we have on this planet. Insofar as can be determined by paleontological evidence, the cetaceans have had large brains equal to and larger than ours for at least thirty million years. The dolphins have had brains equal to ours for fifteen million years. They have proved that they are able to survive with big brains. In spite of the enhancement of the inner reality, they have managed to work out their own thinking, their own doing, their own feeling, and their own actions to remain in tune, in harmony, with the total ecology.

“Humans have not yet demonstrated such a capacity…”

“Somehow, sometime, somewhere, we must agree with one another or we follow the great reptiles into our own extinction, self-inflicted.”

– John C. Lilly, Communication Between Man & Dolphin