Category: infants

08Dec 2024 by Post

Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

Basel Zoo, cats, chimpanzees, Dogs, gorillas, great apes, Human Origins, humans, infants, language, mouse, Neuroscience & Mind, Popular Science, researchers, survival skills, Switzerland, Tom Hawking, University of Neuchatel, Vanessa Wilson, voices

What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Source

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21Sep 2023 by Post

Image of God: Are Children Persons?

abortion, Aristotle, babies, brothels, Children, Christianity, Cicero, clergy, Culture & Ethics, exposure, Faith & Science, Greco-Roman culture, image of God, infanticide, infants, orphanages, pagans, Parents, persons, Plato, Roman Empire, sex slaves, sex trafficking

Today we take it for granted that children are special beings who require special care and attention. But it was not always so. Source

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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

abortion, Artificial Intelligence, babies, bioethics, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, Culture & Ethics, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, Medicine, moral collapse, persons, Peter Singer, philosophy, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, sentient beings, unborn baby, unconsciousness, Yahoo News

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source

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05Apr 2022 by Post

Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”?

arithmetic, bees, cichlids, counting, fish, food pellets, infants, Intelligent Design, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, numbers, Rafael Núñez, Silke Goebel, Sophie Fessl, stringrays, The Scientist, UC San Diego

Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Source

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13Sep 2021 by Post

Squirrel Acrobatics Amaze Scientists

Darwinian theory, empirical science, Engineering, Evolution, Indiana Jones, infants, Intelligent Design, kinesthetic, Nathaniel Hunt, parkour, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Research, Robert Full, robotics, Science (journal), squirrels, storytelling, UC Berkeley, University of Nebraska

The other day, walking down a tree-lined street, we were startled by a sudden crash and scramble at our feet. Source

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23Sep 2020 by Post

Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

birds, circadian clock, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionists, firefighters, fruit flies, functional information, humans, infants, insects, Intelligent Design, mammals, natural selection, neural signaling, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, NREM, phylogeny, rapid eye movement, rats, reptiles, roundworms, Science Advances, sleep, zebra finches

An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Source

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