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15Aug 2024 by Post

A (Cat’s) Grief Observed: Understanding the Gulf that Separates Us from Our Pets

abstractions, Bence Nanay, carnivores, cats, Dogs, emotions, food, grief, humans, Joe Hernandez, Life Sciences, moral responsibility, Neuroscience & Mind, npr, Oakland University, obligate carnivores, pets, predators, prey animals, Psychology Today, reason, safety

The gap between the human mind and the cat mind doesn’t turn on emotions but on abstractions. Source

08Aug 2024 by Post

Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

Adam Kovac, animals, brain, brain circuits, cruelty to animals, expectation, Gizmodo, humans, illness, imagination, medication, Medicine, mice, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, pain control, placebo effect, researchers, sugar pill, University of North Carolina

The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Source

08Aug 2024 by Post

Mind Is Not Annihilated at Death, ER Doc Says

brain, Bruce Greyson, Closer to Truth, death, eliminationism, immortality, materialism, Medicine, Michael Egnor, naturalism, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, soul, The Immortal Mind

“The evidence so far suggests that the entity we call the human mind… does not become annihilated after a person has died.” Source

02Aug 2024 by Post

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

cognition, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, goldenrods, Harvard Law School, human rights, human supremacism, Iceland, More Than Human Life, nature rights, neo-paganism, Neuroscience & Mind, NYU Law School, Panama, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Source

31Jul 2024 by Post

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cave lions, cooking, Darwinian theory, Evolution, flint flake, food processing, Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, horses, hot coals, human mind, Human Origins, Mariana Nabais, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Portugal, reindeer, roasting, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Source

29Jul 2024 by Post

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

Andre Sousa, bioethics, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Medicine, Nature (journal), Nenad Sestan, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University

Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Source

24Jul 2024 by Post

Is There a Universal Distress Register for Animals?

animals, crying, cutting horses, distress, Dogs, emotional contagion, facial expressions, Freda Kreier, herd animals, human voice, humans, humming, Life Sciences, Natalia Albuquerque, neophobia, Neuroscience & Mind, Old Yeller, pigs, University of São Paulo, verbal abuse

Researchers decided to play recorded sounds of human crying and humming to both dogs and pet pigs. Source

18Jul 2024 by Post

Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales

animals, brain, Charlotte Martial, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Grossman School of Medicine, humans, Life Sciences, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, opossum, playing dead, Rachel Nuwer, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, thanatosis

The authors provide a number of accounts from people who experienced altered consciousness when under attack by large animals. Source

15Jul 2024 by Post

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

"survival of the fittest", Engineering, Evolution, fitness, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Neuroscience & Mind, Podcast, risk, science literature, sleep, systems, unconsciousness

“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Source

04Jul 2024 by Post

Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

brain, Carly Cassella, emotions, Feelings, Helen Ansell, human brain, Intelligent Design, István Kovács, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Northwestern University, phase transition, ScienceAlert, thoughts, universe, water

The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. Source

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