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26May 2022 by Post

These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate

Angela Ziltener, animals, antibiotics, antivirals, biology, cats, chimpanzees, corals, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, Gabon, grass, health, itching, mahouts, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Northern Red Sea, pain, parasites, Simone Pika, stomach, University of Zurich, West Africa, work elephant riders, wounds

The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects. Source

15May 2022 by Post

Philosopher Looks for a Way to Redefine Free Will

Benjamin Libet, brain waves, cause, Culture & Ethics, David Hume, effect, free will, Harry Frankfurt, Julian Baggini, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, physics, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Robert J. Marks, The Great Guide

Julian Baggini’s proposed new approach assumes the existence of the very qualities that only a traditional view of the mind offers. Source

24Apr 2022 by Post

Claim: Research Shows Animals Have a Moral Sense

abstract thought, animals, chimps, Conversation, Dogs, emotions, ethics, Evolution, Frans de Waal, horses, James Hutton, moral choice, morality, Nautilus, Neuroscience & Mind, right, Templeton Foundation, The Bonobo and the Atheist, University of Vienna, wrong

We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “ It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really? Source

15Apr 2022 by Post

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

anesthesia, associative learning, biology, Claude Bernard, communications, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, Hailing Jin, heliotropism, Life Sciences, Mimosa pudica, miRNAs, nervous system, Neuroscience & Mind, plants, psychology, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, sensory hair, shameplant, TMAO, Venus flytrap, vernalization, worms

One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Source

08Apr 2022 by Post

Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

axon, biology, brain, Brown University, Duke University, external world, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, library, Max Planck Institute, NELL2, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pinwheels, proteins, purpose, retina, Robo3, Rockefeller University, visual cortex

It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Source

07Apr 2022 by Post

Evolutionary Psychologist Argues that Worms Feel Pain. But How?

Aimen Mirza, alarm system, biology, David Barash, earthworms, endothermic life, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, exothermic life, intelligence, invertebrates, Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, panpsychism, Richard Dawkins, sentience, slaughter, Through a Glass Brightly, University of Washington, Wormmy

Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. Source

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

02Apr 2022 by Post

A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

Albert Einstein, brain, consciousness, David Papineau, general relativity, materialism, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, panpsychism, Philip Goff, physicalism, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum world, Thomas Lewton

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Source

27Mar 2022 by Post

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

animal behavior, babies, birds, brain size, brain volume, cognitive capacity, Cornell University, cuckoo, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, eggs, facial recognition, fairy wrens, intelligence, Intelligent Design, lemurs, lizards, Malurus cyaneus, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, Pavel Němec, penguins, reptiles, The Scientist

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Source

12Mar 2022 by Post

Faith in God Is the Only Coherent Basis for Reason

atheists, Christianity, evolutionary biologists, existence, Fact, faith, Faith & Science, Faith vs. Fact, Jerry Coyne, knowledge, logic, Neuroscience & Mind, non-contradiction, reason, René Descartes, skepticism, theists, thinking, Thomas Aquinas, truth

Atheists commonly assert that there is a profound dichotomy between faith and reason. Source

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