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Science of Play w/Gordon Burghardt

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The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

In terms of anthropomorphizing, let's go back to that floor is lava example. How do you navigate that? Well, before we had you know the modern advances in neuroscience you've had it sort of do it by inference from from behavior. But today there's more more we're coming out on actually recording what is going on in the brain of people and animals as they engage different kinds of activities. And so I see down the line where you might be able to make some pretty close analogical homological statements about the similar brain processes going on in different organisms underlying the same kind of emotion experiences or mental processing. That's pretty exciting and maybe a way of breaking out of that con

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