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Inside the minds of animals - Bryan B Rasmussen

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Do animals think? It’s a question that has intrigued scientists for thousands of years, inspiring them to come up with different methods and criteria to measure the intelligence of animals. Bryan B Rasmussen navigates through this controversial question, showing how determining intelligence often says more about how humans think than about anything else.

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Consciousness--the ability to reflect on or experience one's own actions--is sometimes called the "hard problem" among philosophers of mind. Why is the "hard problem" so hard?

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  • Educator Bryan Rasmussen
  • Animator Mike Schell
  • Composer Stephen LaRosa
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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