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Written by: Jake Linsky Imagine you are strolling along a dock’s edge. As you cross the water line you gaze down and are greeted by vibrant reef in the coastal shallows. Manini dart in and out of latticed structure and a rainbow assortment of nudibranch sea slugs graze among the coral. As you wander further, the seafloor drops and the colors fade and converge into shades of teal. You see a flicker of movement. Was it a fish? Perhaps it was just the wavering wind over water or

Written by MMRP PostDoc Jake Linsky My philosophy career was derailed somewhere between the sea lions in California and pods of competitive humpback whales in Queensland’s crystal waters. As an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, my priorities firmly rested in surfing and catching the next Dead concert. Needless to say, research wasn’t really on my radar. I did, however, have a keen interest in language cognition and the workings of the animal mind. As my philosophy degree progre