Episode
John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness
COMPLEXITY · Nov 23, 2022 · 49 min
What makes us human? Over the last several decades, the once-vast island of human exceptionalism has lost significant ground to wave upon wave of research revealing cognition, emotion, problem-solving, and tool-use in other organisms. But there remains a clear sense that humans stand apart — evidenced by our unique capacity to overrun the planet and remake it in our image. What is unique about…