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Many Minds
Kensy Cooperrider – Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Our world is brimming with beings—human, animal, and artificial. We explore how they think, sense, feel, and learn. Conversations and more, every two weeks.
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Coming of age in Ngogo
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The natural history of linguistic diversity
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From the archive: Electric ecology
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From the archive: Varieties of childhood
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From the archive: Philosophers on psychedelics
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The origins of Darwin's ideas
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The sparkling deep
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Is Man the Hunter just a myth?
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Babies, dogs, and the riddles of word learning
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The inner life of the hand
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From the archive: The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
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Illuminating cave art
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What can AI teach us about the mind?
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Mutualisms all the way down
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Seven metaphors for AI
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Origins of the kiss
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The aura of metaphor
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From the archive: How should we think about IQ?
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From 'On Humans': Can the brain understand itself?
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In search of names
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The value of animal cultures
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What is memory for?
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Of breeds and brains
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Monsters and their makers
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The age of social AI
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Brains of a feather
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How nature restores the mind
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From the archive: Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
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From the archive: Of molecules and memories
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From the archive: Consider the spider
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The shaman with a thousand faces
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Varieties of childhood
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Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
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The primeval soil of play
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The big five and beyond
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Philosophers on psychedelics
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The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
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Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
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Universal emotions in fact and fiction
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From the archive: Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
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Howl, grunt, sing
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The development of evolution
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String theories
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The other half of the brain
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A paradox of learning
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From the archive: The octopus and the android
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Your brain on language
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Nestcraft
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Animal, heal thyself
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The rise of machine culture
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How should we think about IQ?
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Rethinking the "wood wide web"
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Electric ecology
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The nature of nurture
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The space of (possibly) sentient beings
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From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
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From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
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From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
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A new picture of language
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Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture
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Consider the spider
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Can we measure consciousness?
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Rehabilitating placebo
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Cosmopolitan carnivores
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From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
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The borderlands of perception
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Social memory in our closest cousins
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Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
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Of molecules and memories
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Energy, cooperation, and our species' future
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Dawn of the smile
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From the archive: The point of (animal) personality
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From the archive: A smorgasbord of senses
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From the archive: Children in the deep past
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From the archive: The puzzle of piloerection
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From the archive: The scents of language
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From the archive: Aligning AI with our values
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From the archive: Intoxication
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From the archive: A hidden world of sound
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From the archive: Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
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From the archive: Happiness and the predictive mind
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The five portals of cognitive evolution
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Matrescence and the brain
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From the archive: Bat signals
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From the archive: The eye's mind
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The octopus and the android
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Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
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Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
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Species of conversation
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Minding plants
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From the archive: Animal minds and animal morality
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The "I" of the beholder
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The mighty T-Rex brain
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The allure of stories
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Traversing the fourth dimension
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What does ChatGPT really know?
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The thoughtful giant
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From the archive: Why do we dream?
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A hidden world of sound
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Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
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From the archive: Mind everywhere
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The point of (animal) personality
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Happiness and the predictive mind
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The ritual species
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Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
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Birds with words
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From the archive: Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
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From the archive: Why is AI so hard?
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A smorgasbord of senses
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Of chimps and children
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The ABCs of writing systems
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The brilliant swarm
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Children in the deep past
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The quest for human uniqueness
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Animal minds and animal morality
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What is language for?
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From the archive: The root-brain hypothesis
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Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
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Magic and the bird mind
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Many Minds turns two! Looking back on some favorite moments
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Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
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Architects of the underworld
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From the archive: Cultures of the deep
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Intoxication
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Why do we dream?
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Why is AI so hard?
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The brain's many maps
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Plants, languages, and the loss of medicinal knowledge
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Monkeys, monogamy, and masculinity
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The eye's mind
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Bat signals
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The roots of rhythm
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Babies, grandmas, and our most human capacities
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From the archive: Revising the Neanderthal Story
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Mind everywhere
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Changing cultures, changing minds?
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The scents of language
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Is speciesism in our nature?
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The puzzle of piloerection
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Cultures of the deep
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Why some see spirits
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The story of numerals
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From the archive: Clever crows and cheeky keas
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An animal in denial
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Our pranking primate cousins
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Aligning AI with our values
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Culture, innovation, and the collective brain
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The savvy cephalopod
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Telling tracks
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Humans, dogs, and other domesticated animals
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From where we stand
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Lost in translation?
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Revising the Neanderthal story
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The root-brain hypothesis
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When the mind's eye can't see
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Do baboons understand death?
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Clever crows and cheeky keas
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What kindled your interest in minds?
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The shaman, the witch, and the folktale
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WEIRD: Adventures of an acronym
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How do chimps communicate?
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A mini minds with many voices
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Message to the stars
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Me, my umwelt, and I
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Born to be cultured
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Artificial Olympians
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Can artificial minds think creatively?
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The monkey in the mirror
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Of bees and brains
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Introducing 'Many Minds'
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