Have you ever stopped to ponder what it means to be a human, or what is human being? We might look to certain cognitive abilities, from Memory, and language, to the self, or personality. There seem to be a number of unique human abilities. In my own research on memory and language, I'm amazed by how the line for what qualifies as autobiographical memory or language production changes as animals like scrub jays seem to show, what, where and when knowledge, or bonobos learn hundreds of lexigrams. These fundamental aspects of human thought and cognition have been pondered and explored since antiquity. Beginning with philosophers and more recently neuroscientists, researchers have been probing the mind and now the brain for answers. Today I speak with Calvin Trisolini about "humanness" and what it means "to be".
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