Emily Kwong

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Short Wave · Inside the mysterious minds of horses · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

If you see your friend put on an oversized thing with a zipper down the front, your brain goes, jacket. matched

That's a jacket. matched

That goes in the jacket category. matched

And even if the jacket is on the floor, you still know that's a jacket. matched

It won't hurt me. matched

But horses, by comparison, they don't have this same level of categorical perception skills. matched

They do not automatically sort things into categories to the same extent. matched

And you saw this firsthand with your horse, True, and some fence panels that you came across. matched

What happened there? matched

Right. matched

That is their lack of categorical perception at work. matched

And it kind of reminds me of the concept of beginner's mind, like everything is new. matched

It's almost like horses have beginner's mind always for every object. matched

We aren't. matched

That's so interesting. matched

And you write about how this difference plays out in the real world. matched

We sort people into groups. matched

We do. matched

And horses, you're saying, don't do that. matched

I want to talk, too, about when it comes to horse brains and how they're evolved. matched

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