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Many Minds — 166 episodes
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
Seven metaphors for AI
Origins of the kiss
The 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
Brains 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
Varieties 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?
Rethinking 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
Dawn 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?
A hidden world of sound
Myths, robots, and the origins of AI
From the archive: Mind everywhere
The point of (animal) personality
Happiness and the predictive mind
The ritual species
Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
Birds with words
From the archive: Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
From the archive: Why is AI so hard?
A smorgasbord of senses
Of chimps and children
The ABCs of writing systems
The brilliant swarm
Children in the deep past
The quest for human uniqueness
Animal minds and animal morality
What is language for?
From the archive: The root-brain hypothesis
Blindness, neuroplasticity, and the origins of concepts
Magic and the bird mind
Many Minds turns two! Looking back on some favorite moments
Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago?
Architects of the underworld
From the archive: Cultures of the deep
Intoxication
Why do we dream?
Why is AI so hard?
The brain's many maps
Plants, languages, and the loss of medicinal knowledge
Monkeys, monogamy, and masculinity
The eye's mind
Bat signals
The roots of rhythm
Babies, grandmas, and our most human capacities
From the archive: Revising the Neanderthal Story
Mind everywhere
Changing cultures, changing minds?
The scents of language
Is speciesism in our nature?
The puzzle of piloerection
Cultures of the deep
Why some see spirits
The story of numerals
From the archive: Clever crows and cheeky keas
An animal in denial
Our pranking primate cousins
Aligning AI with our values
Culture, innovation, and the collective brain
The savvy cephalopod
Telling tracks
Humans, dogs, and other domesticated animals
From where we stand
Lost in translation?
Revising the Neanderthal story
The root-brain hypothesis
When the mind's eye can't see
Do baboons understand death?
Clever crows and cheeky keas
What kindled your interest in minds?
The shaman, the witch, and the folktale
WEIRD: Adventures of an acronym
How do chimps communicate?
A mini minds with many voices
Message to the stars
Me, my umwelt, and I
Born to be cultured
Artificial Olympians
Can artificial minds think creatively?
The monkey in the mirror
Of bees and brains
Introducing 'Many Minds'