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Many Minds

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Introduction

Many minds is a podcast about our world's spectacular varieties of mind and what we can learn from them. We feature conversations that shed light on the divers ways of thinking, sensing and being that are out there on your host, kense cooperider. For more than forty years now, irene pepper burk has been doing ground breaking research on parrots with a focus on how they think and communicate. She is best known for her work with an african gray parrot named alex. Alex learned english words for numbers, shapes, colors and more. He sometimes even invented words of his own. In this conversation, irene and i talk about alex s well as his successors in

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