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June 27, 2011

Where is your mind?

An intriguing answer to this question is provided by Raymond Tallis in the first section of this week's Start the Week, which you can listen to here or subscribe to the podcast here. He rejects both dualism and scientific reductionism.
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June 19, 2011

Empathy at the Zoo




In this video an orangutan notices a baby bird in distress and uses a tool to help it. This is an example of cross species empathy.
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