From the Vault: Invertebrate Emotions, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Humans are feeling creatures, constantly awash in a sea of emotion. We struggle to understand the waters that suffuse us, but what about other denizens of the animal kingdom? What about the octopods? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore the question of invertebrate emotions. (Originally published 3/12/2020)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, time to go into the vault for a classic episode |
| 0:13.1 | of the show. |
| 0:14.1 | This one originally aired March 12, 2020, and this one was the first in a two part series |
| 0:20.0 | we did about whether or not invertebrates, like insects and worms and creatures like |
| 0:25.1 | that, can feel emotions. |
| 0:27.0 | I thought this was a cool question. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah, this one will really change the way you think about all the creepy crawlies in |
| 0:32.3 | the world around you. |
| 0:33.3 | Alright, let's go ahead and dive in to part one. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:45.8 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:52.3 | And I'm Joe McCormick and today is going to be the first and a couple of episodes that |
| 0:55.8 | we wanted to do on the subject of invertebrate emotions. |
| 0:59.9 | And strangely enough, I got interested in this subject the other day after I was reading |
| 1:05.0 | a poem, not a scientific paper. |
| 1:06.7 | I was reading a poem by the American modernist poet Mary Ann Moore, who I like a lot. |
| 1:12.4 | She writes a lot about like fish and, you know, marine organisms. |
| 1:16.4 | She lived from 1887 to 1972. |
| 1:19.6 | And if it's okay with you, Robert, I wanted to start off this episode just by reading |
| 1:23.4 | this poem that I encountered the other day. |
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