How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?
Closer To Truth6 Elo 2025

How did Cognition and Emotion Evolve?

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What can evolution reveal about the developmental history of thinking and feeling? How did cognition and emotion (affect) co-develop over evolutionary time? Can evolution help solve the mystery of consciousness?

Featuring interviews with Peter Godfrey-Smith, S. Joshua Swamidass, Rachell Powell, Denis Noble, Terrence Deacon, Paul E. Griffiths, Helen De Cruz, and John Dupré.

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Asking Ultimate Questions

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Why a Landscape of Consciousness?

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What Life Might Come After Death?

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Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?

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Raymond Tallis on the Mystery of Human Beings

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