292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

2166.795 - 2190.943 Jonathan Birch

And then there's more recent studies that suggest that the hippocampus genuinely is doing that, that simulating, uh, you know, this is, it's not really counterfactual reasoning, or at least that would be a pretty tendentious description of it, but it's perspective simulation. Um, and I suspect that that capacity for perspective simulation is, is quite widespread among animals.