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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Taking Care of a Water Buffalo
I just saw a video online one of these nature videos where a lion a lion as female lion was hunting and was able to separate out a newborn water buffalo from the pack. But then rather than snacking on it and finishing off its prey the lioness adopted it and started taking care of it. The idea was well maybe she had just lost her own cubs and her maternal instincts overwhelmed her hunger instincts so that's a paradigm for how you know we can switch back and forth between different ways of conceptualizing others even within the constraints of our biological responses yeah because if you work hard enough you could find the commonalities.
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