burying the lede,
chimpanzees,
common ancestry,
David Klinghoffer,
DNA,
Evolution,
gap difference,
genomes,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins and Anthropology,
humans,
Icons of Evolution,
Jonathan Wells,
Kevin Williamson,
Museum of Natural History,
National Review,
Nature (journal),
science journalism,
Smithsonian Institution,
statistics,
Supplementary Data,
zombies
This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Source
cabbage,
carrots,
Charles Darwin,
civilizations,
Copernican moment,
earth,
Evolution,
extraterrestrial life,
Francis Crick,
genes,
history,
human beings,
human exceptionalism,
Human Genome Project,
Intelligent Design,
life,
machinery,
Matt Ridley,
music,
natural selection,
Nicolaus Copernicus,
Planetology,
planets,
sun
I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source
Angus Menuge,
animals,
Artificial Intelligence,
bacon,
Benjamin Libet,
brain,
C. elegans,
ChatGPT,
computer,
Denyse O'Leary,
determinism,
Dogs,
free will,
free won't,
human exceptionalism,
Humanize,
large language models,
machines,
Medicine,
Michael Egnor,
mind,
Minding the Brain,
neural mechanisms,
neuroscience,
Neuroscience & Mind,
philosophy,
Podcast,
The Immortal Mind,
totalitarianism,
Wesley J. Smith
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Source
abstractions,
animal intelligence,
birds,
brains,
chickadees,
cockatoos,
common sense,
crows,
Evolution,
evolutionary biology,
Germany,
Giacomo Gattoni,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
intelligence,
Intelligent Design,
logic,
mammals,
Maria Antonietta Tosches,
Neuroscience & Mind,
Niklas Kempynck,
Onur Güntürkün,
problems,
ravens,
Ruhr University Bochum,
Science (journal),
vertebrates,
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
zoology
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Source
aesthetics,
AI slop,
algorithm,
art,
articles,
Artificial Intelligence,
bioethics,
Books,
business,
Center for Science and Culture,
creative writing,
Culture,
headlines,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
Javanese,
Krakatoa,
life coach,
machines,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Copilot,
Mind Matters News,
Neuroscience & Mind,
nonsense,
personal assistant,
Peter Biles,
photographs,
Plato's Revenge,
Podcasts,
Ted Gioia,
writers
It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Source
Adrian Woolfson,
Albert Einstein,
anti-human exceptionalism,
artificial general intelligence,
bioethics,
Children,
Christianity,
computers,
Denisovans,
Edward Gibbon,
Foundation for Economic Education,
Green Revolution,
Henry Gee,
Homo floresiensis,
Homo luzonensis,
human exceptionalism,
human extinction,
humans,
Lawrence W. Reed,
natural selection,
Neanderthals,
Neuroscience & Mind,
Science (journal),
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Source
Artificial Intelligence,
babies,
bioethics,
computer software,
Endangered Species Act,
fish,
gestating human babies,
human exceptionalism,
image of God,
insects,
invertebrates,
Jeff Sebo,
life,
Life Sciences,
mammals,
microbes,
moral agents,
moral patients,
moral responsibility,
NYU,
philosophers,
plants,
The Moral Circle,
universe
Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Source
A New Unified Theory of Psychology,
animals,
Aristotle,
behavior,
Culture & Ethics,
Dogs,
emotions,
evolutionary biologists,
Feelings,
Gregg Henriques,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
Marc Bekoff,
Michael Egnor,
moral choice,
Neuroscience & Mind,
prejudice,
psychology,
Psychology Today,
Racism,
reason,
secular humanists,
sensations,
sexism,
speciesism,
The Immortal Mind,
Thomas Aquinas,
Wesley J. Smith
Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Source
Africa,
Amanda Richardson,
animal behavior,
antiquity,
BBC News,
Bronze Age,
chimpanzees,
Claire Asher,
Côte D’Ivoire,
Culture & Ethics,
England,
Homo sapiens,
human exceptionalism,
human mind,
humans,
Ice Age,
Merlin,
metal tools,
monkeys,
Neuroscience & Mind,
New Stone Age,
paleontology,
polar bears,
Royal BC Museum,
Salisbury,
Stone Age,
stone tools,
vultures,
walruses
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Source
Big Bang,
Casey Luskin,
chimps,
fossils,
genus Homo,
geologists,
hominids,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins,
human race,
humans,
ID The Future,
Intelligent Design,
Podcast,
Richard Dawkins
Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Source