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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Pre-Experimentation Is a Good Idea, Right?
Timberg: squirrels that hoard nuts in anticipation of future winter food shortages, they will do that even if they've never experienced a winter before. And so we know just simply from that that their behavior is actually driven by instincts. It's a response to particular kinds of cues in the environment that will trigger that behavior. They are not and they're not actually imagining themselves in a possible distant future situation where they don't have the food they need to sustain themselves.
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