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b"ENCORE\\xa0Congratulations, you have a big brain.\\xa0Evolution was good to Homo sapiens.\\xa0But make some room on the dais.\\xa0Research shows that other animals, such as crows, may not look smart, but can solve complex problems.\\xa0\\nMeanwhile human engineers are busily developing cogitating machines.\\xa0\\xa0Intelligent entities abound \\u2013 but are they all capable of actual thought?\\xa0\\xa0\\nHear how crows fashion tools from new materials and can recognize you by sight.\\xa0Also, how an IBM computer may one day outthink the engineers who designed it.\\xa0\\xa0\\nPlus, scientists who simulated a rat brain in a computer, neuron-by-neuron, look ahead to modeling the human brain.\\xa0And, what brain disorders teach us about the brain and our sense of self.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nJohn Marzluff \\u2013 Professor of wildlife science, University of Washington and the author of In the Company of Crows and Ravens\\n\\n\\n\\nIdan Segev \\u2013 Professor of computation and neuroscience, Hebrew University, Jerusalem\\n\\n\\nJeff Welser \\u2013 Vice president and Lab Director, IBM Almaden Research Center\\n\\n\\nAnil Ananthaswamy \\u2013 Science journalist, correspondent for\\xa0\\u201cNew Scientist,\\u201d and author of The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"