The Interverse

Some speculations based on Kate Armstrong's lovely piece.

The Interspecies Interverse: What if we could surf the consciousness of other beings? TLDR; What if we could actually experience reality through the minds of other species?

Imagine slipping into a dolphin's echolocation-rich world where sound becomes three-dimensional sculpture, or accessing the magnetic navigation systems of migrating birds. Picture experiencing octopus color-communication or the distributed intelligence of fungal networks.

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Current research into animal cognition, brain-computer interfaces, and AI translation of non-human communication suggests we're approaching the technological threshold where interspecies empathy could become literal shared experience.

This would be the ultimate expression of what Thich Nhat Hanh called "interbeing"—not just understanding all suffering beings, but temporarily becoming them. It's what I call "fiction science" - new scientific inquiry plausible within a few years, just waiting for us to connect the dots.

Who would you want to experience first?