#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion

Making Sense with Sam Harris

• Episode: #168 — Mind, Space, & Motion
• Website: Making Sense with Sam Harris
• Feed URL: http://wakingup.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:36:33
• Published: 2019-09-11 20:13

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Barbara Tversky about how our senses of space and motion underlie our capacity for thought. They discuss the evolution of mind prior to language, the importance of imitation and gesture, the sensory and motor homunculi, the information communicated by motion, the role of “mirror neurons,” sense of direction, natural and unnatural categories, cognitive trade-offs, and other topics.

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