Episode 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
The Theory of Anything
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The Pot Roast Principle Does Not Demonstrate That Animals Are Not Conscious
The pot roast principle is a story about b a mam putting the pot roast in. A human, even if they had an automatic response to try to bury their nuts and pat it down with their nose, they're not going to do it on concrete because they have an explanation for why that's the wrong thing to do. Animals just don't have that, right? And this really is a big, giant gap, which is part of the reason why animals sometimes come across so intelligent andsometimes come across so stupid. They just, they do not have access to human level explanations. We will talk about burne's theory. He thinks they have access to a certain kind of explanation,
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