Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Frank Vertosick, author of the âThe Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing,â a book about evolutionary intelligence.
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
In this program we visit concepts of evolution and intelligence, some of which were raised after our series on near term human extinction http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/09/15/mcpherson-guy-ph-d-near-term-human-extinction-part-one/.  What is intelligence? What kind of intelligence do non human creatures have? What are the different levels of intelligence that can be found in single cells, or invertebrates, up to human beings?  Neurosurgeon Dr. Frank Vertosick, author of âThe Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing,â discusses these and other questions about learning among all species.  He talks about the learning that occurs through evolution or alteration of the genetic structure and about the learning, of the way we commonly think of it, by studying or by experience.  When Dr. Frank Vertosick and I visited by phone from his office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in early October 2002, we began when I asked him to describe the different levels of intelligence and the development of intelligence in invertebrates.  The book Dr. Frank Vertosick recommends is âLinked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life,â by Albert-Lasio Barabasi.
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