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Many Minds — 172 episodes · page 2 of 2
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'