Many Minds
Science

Many Minds

by 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.

101 episodes
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1
What can AI teach us about the mind?
1:21:19 Mar 26, 2026
2
Mutualisms all the way down
1:08:41 Mar 11, 2026
3
Seven metaphors for AI
55:46 Feb 26, 2026
4
Origins of the kiss
1:01:02 Feb 12, 2026
5
The aura of metaphor
1:36:01 Jan 29, 2026
6
From the archive: How should we think about IQ?
1:33:45 Jan 14, 2026
7
From 'On Humans': Can the brain understand itself?
1:01:26 Dec 31, 2025
8
In search of names
28:34 Dec 18, 2025
9
The value of animal cultures
1:12:00 Dec 4, 2025
10
What is memory for?
1:24:05 Nov 20, 2025
11
Of breeds and brains
1:07:44 Nov 6, 2025
12
Monsters and their makers
1:06:06 Oct 23, 2025
13
The age of social AI
1:24:19 Oct 8, 2025
14
Brains of a feather
1:31:13 Sep 24, 2025
15
How nature restores the mind
1:25:03 Sep 10, 2025
16
From the archive: Revisiting the dawn of human cognition
56:06 Sep 4, 2025
17
From the archive: Of molecules and memories
1:15:10 Aug 21, 2025
18
From the archive: Consider the spider
1:17:45 Aug 7, 2025
19
The shaman with a thousand faces
1:18:16 Jul 24, 2025
20
Varieties of childhood
1:28:48 Jul 10, 2025
21
Science, AI, and illusions of understanding
59:47 Jun 26, 2025
22
The primeval soil of play
56:37 Jun 12, 2025
23
The big five and beyond
1:46:39 May 29, 2025
24
Philosophers on psychedelics
1:40:49 May 14, 2025
25
The cuttlefish and its coat of many colors
1:33:38 Apr 30, 2025
26
Life, free energy, and the pursuit of goals
1:06:49 Apr 17, 2025
27
Universal emotions in fact and fiction
1:20:22 Apr 2, 2025
28
From the archive: Fermentation, fire, and our big brains
1:05:36 Mar 19, 2025
29
Howl, grunt, sing
1:13:38 Mar 6, 2025
30
The development of evolution
1:36:43 Feb 20, 2025
31
String theories
1:21:28 Feb 6, 2025
32
The other half of the brain
59:39 Jan 23, 2025
33
A paradox of learning
1:06:42 Jan 9, 2025
34
From the archive: The octopus and the android
1:25:39 Dec 25, 2024
35
Your brain on language
1:32:56 Dec 12, 2024
36
Nestcraft
1:20:01 Nov 27, 2024
37
Animal, heal thyself
1:07:32 Nov 14, 2024
38
The rise of machine culture
1:20:17 Oct 31, 2024
39
How should we think about IQ?
1:33:45 Oct 17, 2024
40
Rethinking the "wood wide web"
1:16:43 Oct 3, 2024
41
Electric ecology
1:33:10 Sep 19, 2024
42
The nature of nurture
1:16:48 Sep 5, 2024
43
The space of (possibly) sentient beings
1:07:17 Aug 22, 2024
44
From the archive: Cities, cells, and the neuroscience of navigation
1:17:38 Aug 7, 2024
45
From the archive: What does ChatGPT really know?
55:10 Jul 24, 2024
46
From the archive: Medieval monks on memory, meditation, and mind-wandering
1:02:10 Jul 10, 2024
47
A new picture of language
1:55:11 Jun 26, 2024
48
Climate, risk, and the rise of agriculture
1:11:09 Jun 12, 2024
49
Consider the spider
1:17:45 May 30, 2024
50
Can we measure consciousness?
1:10:29 May 16, 2024
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