Smokingpipesitter Type post Author George Montañez Date February 25, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally George Montañez February 25, 2026 Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism 9 The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›
ancient-footprint-embedded-in-earth-showing-detail-of-toes-a-1349464012-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date November 14, 2025 CategoriesGeneticsHuman Origins and AnthropologyPaleontology Tagged , arithmetic, DNA, egg cells, footprints, Homo sapiens, modern humans, Neanderthals, New Scientist, PIEZO1, sperm, Switzerland, University of Seville, University of Zurich The Neanderthal Story Keeps Evolving (Even if Nothing Else Does) Denyse O’Leary November 14, 2025 Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology 5 The University of Seville announces that Neanderthal footprints found along Portugal’s Algarve coast have led to unexpected insights about Neanderthal culture. Read More ›
cave-painting Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date November 21, 2024 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, human brain, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke Do We Need Language to Think? Denyse O’Leary November 21, 2024 Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
Potamotrygon motoro Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 5, 2022 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , arithmetic, bees, counting, fish, infants, neuroscience, numbers, The Scientist, UC San Diego Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”? Denyse O’Leary April 5, 2022 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 3 Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Read More ›
