Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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And that's why, like, I think the big challenge, and there has been a movement to think about like cognition and minds in very biological ways.
Okay.
But the big challenge of course is like, how do we get outside of ourselves, right?
Because this is what we know.
So we start with ourselves and that seems natural, right?
But I think that the more we learn about the forms of cognition and minds in more, especially in more distantly related lineages,
including things like slime molds, right, the more we can understand what the nature of our own cognition happens to be and where it kind of fits in the law-like structure of the universe as opposed to the contingent aspects.
So like, I mean, this is,
I'll come back to the mind question in a second, but just to give you an example of how that plays out, take a question like questions about burying the dead.
Right.
You say, OK, like the angels are burying the dead.
That's that's interesting.
So why were they doing that?
What's the implication?
Oh, they have supernatural beliefs and that suggests stuff about symbolism or intelligence.
Right.
And that's all possible.
Right.
I mean, but then you see all sorts of social insects burying their dead and you're like, whoa, hold on a second.
What's going on?
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