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How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
The main thing I keep coming back to is that nothing flourishes in isolation. Neurons first evolved around the same time that animals started eating each other: that is to say, the fact that we have thought at all emerges from an evolutionary necessity to be aware of the presence of other animals. That doesn’t mean intelligence has its origins in h... See more
Dark Properties – A quest to dig up bright ideas across shared ...
This bears repeating: intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act. We have already learned – from the gibbons, gorillas and macaques – that intelligence is relational: it matters how and where you do it, what form your body gives it, and with
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
Mirror neurons make us fundamentally social —for better and worse.