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Orangutan
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Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›
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The Conviction that ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback

The usual practice in science would rule out mundane explanations first. But clearly, that is a road not taken. Read More ›
Ebola virus
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Sociovirologists Say Viruses Can Cheat, Cooperate

What does it mean to say that a defective string of genes’s behavior could be self-defeating? Or self-preserving? Where did the “self” come in? Read More ›
lobster
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What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”?

Much will be learned from a more careful analysis of the behavior of life forms, which will likely turn up many more instances of unexpected sentience. Read More ›
T-Rex
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The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Read More ›
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Consciousness BEFORE Life? These Scientists Say Yes

One key way life differs from non-life is that life forms have goals. For example, the amoeba seeks to protect itself. Read More ›
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Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›

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