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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, cognitive abilities, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, miRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Aeon, Anil Seth, brain, brain hemispheres, brainstem, consciousness, David Chalmers, materialism, neuroscience, neuroscientists, reality, University of Sussex, Yair Pinto}

Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Julian Baggini, music, neuroscience, orchestra, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Great Guide}

Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is. Read More ›

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Date
August 20, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Andrew Newberg, brain, brain scan, ID the Future, meditation, Michael Egnor, mysticism, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurotheology, podcast}

Listen: Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

_{Science and Culture
August 20, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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What parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues”? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, biotechnology, brain, depression, fraud, funding, measles, mumps, peer review, public health, Research, rubella, Science (journal), serotonin, The Lancet, Vaccines}

Scientists Are Undermining Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 30, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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Falsification of scientific research has been a chronic problem for the sector in recent years. Read More ›

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Date
July 28, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brain, brain damage, brain size, football, neuroscience, tongue, woodpeckers}

Woodpeckers: The Advantage of a Small Brain

_{Science and Culture
July 28, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

3}

Woodpeckers absorb 1200 to 1400 g shock driving their beaks into wood — but a shock absorbing skull doesn’t explain the absence of damage. Read More ›

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Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birds, brain, clams, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, invertebrates, jumping genes, junk DNA, Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements, mammals, marine invertebrates, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution}

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

_{Science and Culture
July 21, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, brain, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Current Biology, Ediacaran Period, evo-devo, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, morphology, nervous system, newspapers, oxygen level, phyla, Stephen Meyer, USSR}

This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

_{David Coppedge
July 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, Korea, London School of Economics, mammals, Mediterranean, memory, My Octopus Teacher, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates, warm-bloodedness}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, brain, computers, creativity, divine image, Elon Musk, emotion, heart, hormones, humans, humor, machines, mercy, neurons, Non-Computable You, programmers, qualia, religion, Robert J. Marks II, Siri, software, soul, Stephen Hawking, understanding, wetware}

The Difference Between Humans and Machines

_{Amanda Witt
July 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›