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[110] The Human Evolutionary Transition From Animal Intelligence to Culture
An introduction and summary of "The Human Evolutionary Transition
From Animal Intelligence to Culture" By Magnus Enquist, Stefano Ghirlanda, Johan Lind 2023
A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other species
The Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence. This incisive book shows how animals rely on robust associative mechanisms that are guided by genetic information, which enable animals to sidestep complex problems in learning and decision making but ultimately limit what they can learn. Humans embody an evolutionary transition to a different kind of intelligence, one that relies on behavioral and mental flexibility. The book argues that flexibility is useless to most animals because they lack sufficient opportunities to learn new behavioral and mental skills. Humans find these opportunities in lengthy childhoods and through culture.
Blending the latest findings in fields ranging from psychology to evolutionary anthropology, The Human Evolutionary Transition draws on computational analyses of the problems organisms face, extensive overviews of empirical data on animal and human learning, and mathematical modeling and computer simulations of hypotheses about intelligence. This compelling book demonstrates that animal and human intelligence evolved from similar selection pressures while identifying bottlenecks in evolution that may explain why human-like intelligence is so rare.
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[109] Kant and Phenomenology By Tom Rockmore
Переглядів 612 години тому
An introduction and summary of "Kant and Phenomenology" By Tom Rockmore 2011 Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century-and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important later thinkers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who eventually tu...
[108] The Experience Machine How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality By Andy Clark
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An introduction and summary of "The Experience Machine How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" By Andy Clark 2023 For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a p...
[107] When Animals Dream The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness By David M. Peña-Guzmán
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An introduction and summary of "When Animals Dream The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" By David M. Peña-Guzmán 2022 A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with phi...
[106] The Imaginary A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination By Jean-Paul Sartre
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An introduction and summary of "The Imaginary A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination" By Jean-Paul Sartre 1940 A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against t...
[105] The Recursive Mind By Michael C. Corballis
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An introduction and summary of "The Recursive Mind The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization" By Michael C. Corballis 2011 The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our th...
[104] The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness By Edmund Husserl
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An introduction and summary of "The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness" By Edmund Husserl 1964 An exploration of the terrain of consciousness in the light of its temporality from the father of phenomenology. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl’s Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins. The first part of the book was or...
[103] Making Space The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning By Newcombe, Huttenlocher
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An introduction and summary of "Making Space The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning" By Nora Newcombe, Janellen Huttenlocher 2000 Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial ...
[102] Space and Sense By Susanna Millar
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An introduction and summary of "Space and Sense" By Susanna Millar 2008 How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on integrating diverse sensory inpu...
[101] Out of Our Heads By Alva Noë
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An introduction and summary of "Out of Our Heads Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness" By Alva Noë 2010 Alva Noë is one of a new breed-part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist-who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our He...
[100] The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology By Ray Kurzweil
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An introduction and summary of "The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology" By Ray Kurzweil 2005 At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genet...
[99] Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason By Martin Heidegger
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An introduction and summary of "Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" By Martin Heidegger 1977 The eminent philosopher delivers an illuminating interpretation of Kant’s magnum opus in what is itself a significant work of Western philosophy. The text of Martin Heidegger’s 1927-28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason presents a close in...
[98] Hume on Causation By Helen Beebee
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An introduction and summary of Hume on Causation By Helen Beebee 2006 Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going as far back as Aristotle. In this lucid and enthralling account, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation, making it the ideal starting point for those approaching the subject for the first time. Beginnin...
[97] Experienced Wholeness By Wanja Wiese
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An introduction and summary of "Experienced Wholeness Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Predictive Processing" By Wanja Wiese 2018 An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally. How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can...
[96] The case for mental imagery By Kosslyn, Thompson & Ganis
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An introduction and summary of "The case for mental imagery" By Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Giorgio Ganis 2006 When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition...
[95] Mental Imagery Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience By Bence Nanay
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[95] Mental Imagery Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience By Bence Nanay
[94] Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness By Patrick House
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[94] Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness By Patrick House
[93] Consciousness Revisited Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts By Michael Tye
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[93] Consciousness Revisited Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts By Michael Tye
[92] The Edge of Sentience Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI By Jonathan Birch
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[92] The Edge of Sentience Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI By Jonathan Birch
[91] The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life By Nick Lane
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[91] The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life By Nick Lane
[90] Life As No One Knows ItThe Physics of Life's Emergence By Sara Imari Walker
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[90] Life As No One Knows ItThe Physics of Life's Emergence By Sara Imari Walker
[89] Industrial Society and Its Future By Ted Kaczynski
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[89] Industrial Society and Its Future By Ted Kaczynski
[88] The Mirror of the World Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness By Christopher Peacocke
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[88] The Mirror of the World Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness By Christopher Peacocke
[87] Feeling & Knowing Making Minds Conscious By Antonio Damasio
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[87] Feeling & Knowing Making Minds Conscious By Antonio Damasio
[86] Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison By Michel Foucault
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[86] Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison By Michel Foucault
[85] Seeing and Visualizing It's Not what You Think By Zenon W. Pylyshyn
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[85] Seeing and Visualizing It's Not what You Think By Zenon W. Pylyshyn
[84] Organisms, Agency, and Evolution By D. M. Walsh
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[84] Organisms, Agency, and Evolution By D. M. Walsh
[83] The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action By Matthew Soteriou
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[83] The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action By Matthew Soteriou
[82] Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention By Montemayor & Haladjian
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[82] Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention By Montemayor & Haladjian
[81] Mental Representation and Consciousness By Eduard Marbach
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[81] Mental Representation and Consciousness By Eduard Marbach

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @stevedickens-h5e
    @stevedickens-h5e Годину тому

    is this googles AI podcast, sounds like it, heard it elsewhere in another podcast. I do admit it seems to work well. However the giveaway is not seeing the two people doing the chat. Tho Im sure they are even working on software to create the artificial images. Personally This would work good in robots I think, it would allow the robots to be more engaging with the people over some discussion or brainstorming, anyway just saying.

  • @rjmunt
    @rjmunt 2 дні тому

    Is this real people talking? It sounds like AI voice reading a script.

  • @AsifKhan-bv3iu
    @AsifKhan-bv3iu 2 дні тому

    Fantastic presentation.

  • @centercannothold9760
    @centercannothold9760 2 дні тому

    I think it's more productive to think of abstractions ( and memory ) as enablers for our intentions to live through time. Concepts are universals and evolution's way for us humans to function and survive.

  • @michaelmacisaac7742
    @michaelmacisaac7742 3 дні тому

    Very good account…time should be viewed as a necessary framework not absolute outside our experience.His overall transcendental deduction presupposes an analyst with minimal capacity to conduct the enquiry. Like Plato’s third man argument…. Very difficult to validate a system without viewing it from outside that system or presupposing some features of said system. Good work!

  • @pinecone421
    @pinecone421 4 дні тому

    Is the content AI generated?

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 4 дні тому

    I protended I would enjoy this episode

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 4 дні тому

    Obnoxious AI

  • @JingleJangleJam
    @JingleJangleJam 6 днів тому

    Nice, I'd definitely read it, but unfortunately it's an ''academic book'', so it's price is way above what the orindary person can afford to read it.

    • @pinecone421
      @pinecone421 4 дні тому

      What book are you referring to?

    • @JingleJangleJam
      @JingleJangleJam 3 дні тому

      @@pinecone421 The one discussed and reviewed in this video and the title, ''Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason By Martin Heidegger'', it costs 100 - 150 AUs dollars, or 66 - 100 US dollars, I asked the publisher why and she said; ''We have no control over how academic works are valued compared to other works, but this is our best deal for this item as of now, unfortunately. Our pricing is determined by a variety of factors and can change over time. Our products, including this one, come from various suppliers as well, and prices can fluctuate accordingly. This occasionally necessitates an adjustment in our selling price.'' Therefore, it seems, academic suppliers are charging a king's ransom price for their books compared to non-academic retailers, despite the deceased, and long public, nature of the original intellectual's content of thought. . . The question I asked that publishing agent lady, was regarding the book ''Theory and History of Literature: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger by Andrzej Warmins'', that was priced at 138AU / 92 US dollars. . . It's not available in the public libraries either, which is a darn shame because it sounds rather interesting.

  • @hunterdunn23
    @hunterdunn23 7 днів тому

    Made by AI everyone -- with Google NotebookLLM - anyone can access this AI tool for free, feed in a PDF, and make a faux podcast like this.

  • @Vejita12
    @Vejita12 7 днів тому

    Not ther smartest conversation I have heard.

  • @saulorocha3755
    @saulorocha3755 8 днів тому

    These two have an artificial, staged, and unnatural way to interact that is, in lack of a worse name, terrible! And all these nonsense talk: ok, sure, yeah, hm… whenever one ends a short sentence, man, that’s infuriating (and sometimes comical).

    • @travisporco
      @travisporco 5 днів тому

      this surely is an AI-generated thing. Also what human has ever said that Heidegger had a way of 'making things click'! Rofl...what a scream!

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 8 днів тому

    We have 6 senses we have another common sense.of we don't have that we never know what is reality.

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 8 днів тому

    Imagine having x ray eyes like a superman or have the ability to fly the same speed as light. We not built for that , therefore evolution what way is it developing ??.

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 8 днів тому

    They say that the Greek language has a word for everything. Hebrew is totally different very little letters yet we don't understand that Hebrew use concrete terms not abstract ideas. A fly eyes are not like ours, imagine having such eyes we go mad.

  • @Meta4Monky
    @Meta4Monky 8 днів тому

    Good voices and points but sounds choreographed

    • @davve346
      @davve346 7 днів тому

      It's AI generated. Says so in the channel description. I heard recently there's a new ai model that can generate entire podcasts

    • @Meta4Monky
      @Meta4Monky 7 днів тому

      @davve346 🤯

  • @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858
    @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 8 днів тому

    I enjoy your podcast very much. There's a fine balance between doing philosophy and being a cartoon. It seems to me the likely viewers of your videos are not so ignorant as to not know the basic ideas of a particular philosopher. So you've got at least 80% cartooning -- it's a good script -- and very little philosophy that hit home. It's like when a hamburger is made mostly of sawdust. I enjoy your podcast very much. I might advise you to do more philosophy and be less of a cartoon. Keep up the good work. Whomever your viewers are, I think they like what you're doing. But those of us who are not basically total beginners want more philosophy. *Throws two cents into a bucket*

  • @raginald7mars408
    @raginald7mars408 9 днів тому

    .as a German Biologist - this is about the End Phase of Domestication - we race unstoppable to the Techno Sphere Abyss - we become Sheeple on the Techno Sphere Farm - Slaves of Robots to maintain it until we Self Extinct . - This may be the Path of any Civilization - Self Extinction and the Evolution of the Techno Topos World - that is able to colonize the Cosmos - as it never needs anything of the Bio Sphere. All tools we ever invented, created, mass produced - were abused to kill each other. We even kill ourselves with food and excess pleasures of all sorts Things to Come - H G Wells many more to come The End of the Bios Sphere is the Start of the Techno Sphere

  • @escher4401
    @escher4401 9 днів тому

    How do you make these AI podcasts last that long?

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 5 днів тому

      Haha, I immediately had the same question actually

  • @pichirisu
    @pichirisu 10 днів тому

    fuck yeah

  • @jjmelendez2343
    @jjmelendez2343 12 днів тому

    Wait are these videos AI????

  • @StephanBreuerFLYING
    @StephanBreuerFLYING 18 днів тому

    Ai is amazing lol

  • @AyazKhanJ
    @AyazKhanJ 19 днів тому

    interesting

  • @Hairfire
    @Hairfire 22 дні тому

    Sounds like an AI. Two AIs actually

  • @CalebIgnace
    @CalebIgnace 24 дні тому

    AI Podcast alert!!

  • @YourFriendlyGApilot
    @YourFriendlyGApilot 27 днів тому

    The part on consciousness was interesting, but it is quite surprising that in 2014, with all the published psychological and neuroscientific evidence against it someone would still argue for the Whorfian hypothesis in summer form.. 🤷

    • @branchesofphilosophy
      @branchesofphilosophy 27 днів тому

      The concept of "actuality" is central to Honderich’s theory and requires careful consideration. Understanding this concept is crucial for grasping how the author sees language as contributing to our understanding of consciousness. Ultimately he concludes that lingualism does not adequately explain the difference between conscious and linguistic representations. He suggests that while lingualism avoids some of the problems of other representation-based theories, it fails to account for the "actuality" of conscious thoughts, making them seem no different than marks on a page.

  • @YassenChapkanov
    @YassenChapkanov 27 днів тому

    To the person behind this channel, thank you for the effort put into making this ai shorts. They have a great utility to me To everyone else, I encourage you to treat those summaries as trailer for reading the actual books if you find them interesting. AI is not a substitute for personal engagement.

  • @glennsimonsen8421
    @glennsimonsen8421 28 днів тому

    So smug. So ignorant.

  • @johndoe-qz1rl
    @johndoe-qz1rl 28 днів тому

    Is this AI generated?

  • @bankiey
    @bankiey 29 днів тому

    Book of Tobit is relevant to this subject matter

  • @bankiey
    @bankiey 29 днів тому

    Hell yeah, Dunbar. Dunbar’s number in particular has been a fascinating rumination

  • @josephorlando5244
    @josephorlando5244 Місяць тому

    For an honest understanding of Pinker's trends view the writing of the illustrious scientist and philosopher David Berlinski.

  • @josephorlando5244
    @josephorlando5244 Місяць тому

    Steven Pinker needs to get a real job.

  • @Known-unknowns
    @Known-unknowns Місяць тому

    Sounds like they're reading from a script 😐

  • @conexionneuronal8820
    @conexionneuronal8820 Місяць тому

    that was an amazing summary, thank you 🙂

  • @РодионЧаускин
    @РодионЧаускин Місяць тому

    Robinson Joseph Jackson Jennifer Hernandez Margaret

  • @underbelly69
    @underbelly69 Місяць тому

    Gpt much ?

    • @edenaut
      @edenaut 28 днів тому

      they didn't want to get their own hands dirty

  • @BAAAAAAAAAAA
    @BAAAAAAAAAAA Місяць тому

    At least mark this shit as AI

  • @YassenChapkanov
    @YassenChapkanov Місяць тому

    Surprisingly good for AI given the short time format.

  • @shook9935
    @shook9935 Місяць тому

    Your channel is gold , thank you from the bottom of my heart , for uploading this video

  • @shook9935
    @shook9935 Місяць тому

    Please I want to know who is talking is an AI, or real being

  • @SonamHoani
    @SonamHoani Місяць тому

    Wow.

  • @dheeraj_one
    @dheeraj_one Місяць тому

    This AI generated slop is freaking irritating. Right click Click on the video and then click don't recommend channel.

  • @brianmorin5547
    @brianmorin5547 Місяць тому

    AI to AI podcasts need to be banned

  • @giantessmaria
    @giantessmaria Місяць тому

    thanks, fascinating topic, can't get enough of this stuff!

  • @esmameryem1905
    @esmameryem1905 Місяць тому

    Very good podcast even though it’s AI 🥳

  • @joebullock5450
    @joebullock5450 Місяць тому

    Good use of notebook!!!!

  • @BenuTuber
    @BenuTuber Місяць тому

    Why not be transparent about it being AI generated?

  • @TheAncientColossus
    @TheAncientColossus Місяць тому

    AI is getting out of hand. I thought real people were talking until 3 minutes into the video. Something felt off and uneasy. Turns out it IS AI-generated. My heart literally dropped.

  • @2fishes-q5h
    @2fishes-q5h Місяць тому

    Pretty well done for under 13 minutes 👏