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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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27%The origins of Darwin's ideas
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21%The sparkling deep
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29%Is Man the Hunter just a myth?
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23%Babies, dogs, and the riddles of word learning
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19%The inner life of the hand
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27%From the archive: The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
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23%Illuminating cave art
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29%What can AI teach us about the mind?
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32%Mutualisms all the way down
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24%Seven metaphors for AI
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25%Origins of the kiss
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37%The aura of metaphor
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22%From the archive: How should we think about IQ?
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26%From 'On Humans': Can the brain understand itself?
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32%In search of names
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23%The value of animal cultures
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26%What is memory for?
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35%Of breeds and brains
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24%Monsters and their makers
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32%The age of social AI
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25%Brains of a feather
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20%How nature restores the mind
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32%From the archive: Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
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20%From the archive: Of molecules and memories
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24%From the archive: Consider the spider
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22%The shaman with a thousand faces
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35%Varieties of childhood
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34%Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
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28%The primeval soil of play
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20%The big five and beyond
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26%Philosophers on psychedelics
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27%The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
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29%Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
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24%Universal emotions in fact and fiction
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33%From the archive: Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
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29%Howl, grunt, sing
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21%The development of evolution
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26%String theories
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22%The other half of the brain
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30%A paradox of learning
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32%From the archive: The octopus and the android
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31%Your brain on language
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27%Nestcraft
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21%Animal, heal thyself
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24%The rise of machine culture
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24%How should we think about IQ?
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29%Rethinking the "wood wide web"
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28%Electric ecology
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22%The nature of nurture
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26%The space of (possibly) sentient beings
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20%From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
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28%From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
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30%From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
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26%A new picture of language
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32%Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture
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22%Consider the spider
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27%Can we measure consciousness?
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29%Rehabilitating placebo
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61%Cosmopolitan carnivores
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21%From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
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20%The borderlands of perception
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81%Social memory in our closest cousins
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46%Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
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22%Of molecules and memories
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24%Energy, cooperation, and our species' future
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33%Dawn of the smile
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19%From the archive: The point of (animal) personality
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33%From the archive: A smorgasbord of senses
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21%From the archive: Children in the deep past
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25%From the archive: The puzzle of piloerection
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26%From the archive: The scents of language
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28%From the archive: Aligning AI with our values
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59%From the archive: Intoxication
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22%From the archive: A hidden world of sound
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21%From the archive: Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
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23%From the archive: Happiness and the predictive mind
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28%The five portals of cognitive evolution
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24%Matrescence and the brain
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28%From the archive: Bat signals
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28%From the archive: The eye's mind
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37%The octopus and the android
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32%Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
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31%Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
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27%Species of conversation
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29%Minding plants
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27%From the archive: Animal minds and animal morality
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20%The "I" of the beholder
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33%The mighty T-Rex brain
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24%The allure of stories
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29%Traversing the fourth dimension
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29%What does ChatGPT really know?
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21%The thoughtful giant
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26%From the archive: Why do we dream?
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21%A hidden world of sound
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20%Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
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31%From the archive: Mind everywhere
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25%The point of (animal) personality
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24%Happiness and the predictive mind
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23%The ritual species
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27%Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
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36%Birds with words
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21%From the archive: Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
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19%From the archive: Why is AI so hard?
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20%A smorgasbord of senses
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20%Of chimps and children
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25%The ABCs of writing systems
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34%The brilliant swarm
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36%Children in the deep past
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26%The quest for human uniqueness
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33%Animal minds and animal morality
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22%What is language for?
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32%From the archive: The root-brain hypothesis
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29%Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
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62%Magic and the bird mind
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76%Many Minds turns two! Looking back on some favorite moments
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66%Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
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21%Architects of the underworld
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23%From the archive: Cultures of the deep
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23%Intoxication
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31%Why do we dream?
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22%Why is AI so hard?
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29%The brain's many maps
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25%Plants, languages, and the loss of medicinal knowledge
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24%Monkeys, monogamy, and masculinity
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28%The eye's mind
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31%Bat signals
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23%The roots of rhythm
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29%Babies, grandmas, and our most human capacities
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21%From the archive: Revising the Neanderthal Story
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31%Mind everywhere
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25%Changing cultures, changing minds?
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24%The scents of language
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36%Is speciesism in our nature?
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23%The puzzle of piloerection
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32%Cultures of the deep
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26%Why some see spirits
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57%The story of numerals
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29%From the archive: Clever crows and cheeky keas
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19%An animal in denial
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21%Our pranking primate cousins
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26%Aligning AI with our values
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27%Culture, innovation, and the collective brain
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32%The savvy cephalopod
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80%Telling tracks
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20%Humans, dogs, and other domesticated animals
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25%From where we stand
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22%Lost in translation?
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30%Revising the Neanderthal story
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21%The root-brain hypothesis
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51%When the mind's eye can't see
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19%Do baboons understand death?
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24%Clever crows and cheeky keas
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19%What kindled your interest in minds?
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28%The shaman, the witch, and the folktale
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33%WEIRD: Adventures of an acronym
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26%How do chimps communicate?
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32%A mini minds with many voices
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80%Message to the stars
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27%Me, my umwelt, and I
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26%Born to be cultured
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33%Artificial Olympians
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26%Can artificial minds think creatively?
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19%The monkey in the mirror
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27%Of bees and brains
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19%Introducing 'Many Minds'
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