Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
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But I know it sounds so simplistic, but it actually was a stumbling block for a long time.
And it was a stumbling block with birds, and presumably it would have been with their ancestors in the dinosaurs, theropod dinosaurs, if we were able to reconstruct their cognitive world.
And so I think that comparative cognition sort of moved
away to some extent from just looking at our closest living relatives and like you know what can chimps do can chimps mind remember um and you know start to look at all sorts of other animals and so like birds were early examples um but the most astounding is in my view is bees
And it's like, you know, if you show someone like, you know, oh, here, I got, you know, I got my, you know, my grackles to make this object or color discrimination in X number of trials.
You know, the bee people will say, oh, like our bees did that in, you know, half the time, right?
I mean, it's actually quite remarkable.
There's...
I think, compelling evidence for abstract concepts in bees, like sameness difference, and then actually transmitting that across sensory modalities.
So same different shape,
Same different smell.
It's quite remarkable.
More than that, there's a lot of evidence for holistic worldviews where the worldview of a bee or arthropods consists of...
a unified sort of field with objects spatially distributed bound with all sorts of properties in space and time, which is like, that's our experience.
That's our own wealth.
We have our own quirks of our own wealth, but that's essentially how we perceive the world.
And I think that there's a lot of evidence that that was recreated essentially in these other lineages.
which suggests that there's something quite law-like about that.
You know, once you get into phenomenology, science kind of reaches the end of what it can tell us right now, right?
Like, you know, I'm talking about the experiential qualities to things and so forth.
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