Do Animals Dream? With David M. Peña-Guzmán
Big Brains
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The Evolution of Metacognition
Since the 1990s, there has been an explosion of research on animal metacognition. The connection to dreams is that our cognitive guards are lower when we are in a dream state. If other animals are metacognitive agents, then it's possible that they could have lucid dreams. And so I draw a kind of weak conclusion, but it's a conclusion that really boggles the mind and pushes the limits of our thinking about the minds of other animals.
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