collective brain

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1 mentions 1 recordings first heard May 2026 last heard 25 May ↑1 vs the 6 months before

Idea that shared knowledge creates a distributed cognitive system

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Shankar VedantamHidden Brain · The Past is Never Dead · 41:27 · 25 May
…So this kind of cultural transmission of knowledge and ideas leads to an idea that you call the collective brain.…
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