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The Dissenter · 2025-05-08 · 59 min · 8,830 words

#1094 Cody Moser: Collective Intelligence and Cultural Innovation

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by by Cody Moser. He's a PhD candidate and Fletcher Jones Fellow in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced and a 2024 Junior Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies. And today we're going to talk about topics like collective intelligence, cultural innovation, infant-directed speech, music, and some other related topics. So Cody, welcome to the show.

It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks, Ricardo. Really happy to be here. I love this show and so really excited to be on. Thank you.

So let's start with intelligence here. First of all, I mean perhaps a definition. What is intelligence? Yeah, um, so this is sort of a million-dollar question in the sense that I think everyone has an opinion about it and there might be kind of a short answer and a long answer that I could give for this.

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