“These birds were, in effect, recording the sounds of their own habitat destruction. And they were doing this, ironically, inside their mating songs.” — Article noting that Lyrebirds inserted chainsaw and car-alarm noises into their mating repertoire.

I wonder if the humans can understand the significance of this. It is not merely about birds mating in machine noise.

It is about us… changing… to become like the machines we worship, nurture, sustain, and develop…

…in place of living beings – and their anciently conserved evolutionary capacities.

The thing about humans is this: we become like what we relate with, and the basic character of our intelligence acquisition faculties… is mimetic.