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#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Mental Health

My sense is that these attempts to teach apes human language have been failures. I think that a lot of the claims you see in National Geographic videos and in popular presentations don't bear up under scrutiny. Have you ever seen the working memory tasks performed by chimp? Oh, is this one a little faster than human? Yeah, yeah, it's amazing.

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