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September 17, 2025 32 mins

Episode 78 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses whether pet parenting makes you attractive to mates, the role of consciousness with no free will, and how a Galápagos tortoise is coming back from extinction.

Captions available soon for translation.


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00:00 Intro

00:01:34 Question 1 (Pet ownership and attraction)

00:10:22 Question 2 (Consciousness with no free will)

00:17:50 Question 3 (Galápagos Tortoises)

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