The Monkey Dance

By: The Monkey Dance
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  • Two cognitive scientists talk about everything society from science and philosophy to politics and art.
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Episodes
  • 17 | Does imagination help us learn about the world?

    17 | Does imagination help us learn about the world?
    Sep 25 2024
    Why do we have imagination? We sit down with Maria Fedorova to chat about what imagination is, ways to describe imagination as a process and a capacity, and whether it differs from perception and hallucination (if at all). We also discuss how imagination helps us navigate our realities, its relationship to our beliefs, and its role in empathy and understanding the perspectives of others.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • 16 | Can we increase democratic empowerment through decentralization?

    16 | Can we increase democratic empowerment through decentralization?
    Aug 22 2024

    How can we balance knowledge transfer and democratic empowerment? We sit down with Kristina Vasić and Ákos Szegőfi in a wide ranging discussion about the importance of access to information in a democracy, the need for institutions for knowledge transfer, and how decentralization can help deconstruct entrenched power structures. The conversation spans types of dialogue, the usefulness of rhetoric, whether any argument can be free of bias, and a bunch of other related topics on power, information, and governance.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 15 | On Nostalgia: Memory, personal histories, and decolonizing narratives

    15 | On Nostalgia: Memory, personal histories, and decolonizing narratives
    Aug 1 2024

    What is the function of nostalgia? We sit down with Manu Sharma and talk about what makes a memory, what functions thinking about the past serves, and the impact of broader societal narratives on our senses of self. We discuss the construction of personal histories, their relationships to cultural histories, and also how historical narratives can be constructed by political movements to embolden and dehumanize groups of people.
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    1 hr and 47 mins

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