Okay, for the whales, the researcher and the Water Na'vi say that the whales have their own language, mathematics, art, singing, and so on, and are much smarter than humans. I don't doubt that whales can think and have great emotions, but do they need math when swimming and without hands to mark math on paper or rock walls?
I can understand singing among whales, but Mathematics? What point would that become practical for a whale, swimming through the ocean? Whales are great, though I don't know if mathematics, algebra, and complex science is going to do them much use. That almost seems like humans projecting their studies onto the whales. Maybe the whales don't need those things to make the most of life?
It's an interesting subject IMO, because James Cameron suggests it, but then doesn't show any evidence in the film of the Whales using Math or art.
I'm just trying to understand his point about mathematics and whales. The flashbacks suggest memory and language, but math I didn't see.
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