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Many Minds — 172 episodes · page 1 of 2
Island of the tool users
Cognitive offloading and its consequences
Coming of age in Ngogo
The natural history of linguistic diversity
From the archive: Electric ecology
From the archive: Varieties of childhood
From the archive: Philosophers on psychedelics
The origins of Darwin's ideas
The sparkling deep
Is Man the Hunter just a myth?
Babies, dogs, and the riddles of word learning
The inner life of the hand
From the archive: The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
Illuminating cave art
What can AI teach us about the mind?
Mutualisms all the way down
ESeven metaphors for AI
Origins of the kiss
EThe aura of metaphor
From the archive: How should we think about IQ?
From 'On Humans': Can the brain understand itself?
In search of names
The value of animal cultures
What is memory for?
Of breeds and brains
Monsters and their makers
The age of social AI
EBrains of a feather
How nature restores the mind
From the archive: Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
From the archive: Of molecules and memories
From the archive: Consider the spider
The shaman with a thousand faces
EVarieties of childhood
Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
The primeval soil of play
The big five and beyond
Philosophers on psychedelics
The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
Universal emotions in fact and fiction
From the archive: Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
Howl, grunt, sing
The development of evolution
String theories
The other half of the brain
A paradox of learning
From the archive: The octopus and the android
Your brain on language
Nestcraft
Animal, heal thyself
The rise of machine culture
How should we think about IQ?
ERethinking the "wood wide web"
Electric ecology
The nature of nurture
The space of (possibly) sentient beings
From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
A new picture of language
Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture
Consider the spider
Can we measure consciousness?
Rehabilitating placebo
Cosmopolitan carnivores
From the archive: Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
The borderlands of perception
Social memory in our closest cousins
Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
Of molecules and memories
Energy, cooperation, and our species' future
EDawn of the smile
From the archive: The point of (animal) personality
From the archive: A smorgasbord of senses
From the archive: Children in the deep past
From the archive: The puzzle of piloerection
From the archive: The scents of language
From the archive: Aligning AI with our values
From the archive: Intoxication
From the archive: A hidden world of sound
From the archive: Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
From the archive: Happiness and the predictive mind
The five portals of cognitive evolution
Matrescence and the brain
From the archive: Bat signals
From the archive: The eye's mind
The octopus and the android
Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
Species of conversation
Minding plants
From the archive: Animal minds and animal morality
The "I" of the beholder
The mighty T-Rex brain
The allure of stories
Traversing the fourth dimension
What does ChatGPT really know?
The thoughtful giant
From the archive: Why do we dream?