Many Minds

Many Minds

Author: Kensy Cooperrider – Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute Language: English Episodes: 100
There's a quiet revolution happening in how we understand intelligence, and it's not just about humans. Many Minds, hosted by Kensy Cooperrider of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, digs into this expansive idea. Each episode is a journey into the inner worlds of creatures and creations we share the planet with. You'll hear from researchers who decode the complex social minds of crows, who map the sensory universe of an octopus, or who grapple with the emerging cognition of artificial systems. This isn't a dry lecture series; it's a collection of thoughtful conversations that feel like pulling up a chair with experts who are genuinely redefining what it means to think, feel, and learn. The Many Minds podcast operates from a simple but profound premise: to grasp our own human experience, we need to listen to the many other kinds of minds around us. Tune in every other week for explorations that are as much about philosophy and wonder as they are about science and education, all grounded in rigorous research and a deep curiosity about the beings-animal, human, and artificial-that fill our world.
Episodes
From the archive: Intoxication [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:09
Hi friends, we're on hiatus for the fall. To tide you over, we're putting up some favorite episodes from our archives. Enjoy! --- A pharmacologist and a philosopher walk into a bar... This is not the start of a joke—it's…
From the archive: A hidden world of sound [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:53
Hi friends, we will be on hiatus for the fall. To tide you over, we're putting up some favorite episodes from our archives. Sadly, the guest featured in this week's archive pick—Karen Bakker—passed way last month. Her co…
From the archive: Why did our brains shrink 3000 years ago? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:53
Hi friends, we will be on hiatus for the fall. To tide you over, we're putting up some favorite episodes from our archives. You may not be surprised to hear that the paper featured in this archive pick attracted a lot of…
From the archive: Happiness and the predictive mind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:39
Hi friends, we will be on hiatus for the fall. To tide you over, we're putting up some favorite episodes from our archives. Enjoy! ——— There's an old view of the mind that goes something like this: The world is flooding…
The five portals of cognitive evolution [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:48
Welcome back all! So, this episode is a first for us. Two firsts, actually. For one, it features our first-ever repeat guest: Andrew Barron, a neuroscientist at Macquarie University. If you're a long-time listener, you m…
Matrescence and the brain [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:58
Scientists who study the mind and brain have always been drawn to periods of intense change—to those life stages marked by rapid transformation. Infancy is one of those periods, of course. Adolescence is another. But the…
From the archive: Bat signals [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:15
We're still on summer break, but we wanted to share a favorite interview from our archives. Enjoy! ---- We've got something special for you today folks: bats. That's right: bats. Ever since Thomas Nagel wrote his famous…
From the archive: The eye's mind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:51
We're taking a little summer break right now, but we wanted to share a favorite essay from our archives. Enjoy! --- Welcome back folks! Today, we've got an audio essay for you. I won't say too too much—don't want to spoi…
The octopus and the android [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:39
Have you heard of Octopolis? It's a site off the coast of Australia where octopuses come together. It's been described as a kind of underwater "settlement" or "city." Now, smart as octopuses are, they are not really know…
Revisiting the dawn of human cognition [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:06
There's a common story about the human past that goes something like this. For a few hundred thousand years during the Stone Age we were kind of limping along as a species, in a bit of a cognitive rut, let's say. But the…