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Feb 28, 2020

This is the premium transcript for BS 168, which is an interview with Cecelia Heyes, author of Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking.

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Feb 28, 2020

BS 168 is an interview with psychologist Cecilia Heyes from Oxford University in the UK. We talk about her fascinating book "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking." Our focus is on exploring the evidence that several cognitive skills that appear to be unique to humans are learned from other people rather...


Feb 14, 2020

This is the transcript for BS 167 with Stanislas Dehaene about his book How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now .

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Feb 14, 2020

This is an interview with Stanislas Dehaene about his new book How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now.  According to neuroscientist Dehaene neuroscience has revealed that human babies are incredible "learning machines" whose abilities exceed those of the best current artificial...