Tag: cats

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, backyard telescope, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mirrors, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, animal behavior, animal communication, animal languages, artificial inteligence, attention, body language, cats, communication, CyberNews, ethology, Hartz, humans, kittens, meowing, National Geographic, pet supplies}

The Tao of Meow: Cats Mew Mostly for Humans

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 2, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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It might be smart to ask people who work with animals to interpret some of this first. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Aeon, Albert Einstein, cats, classical physics, Erwin Schrödinger, Geiger counter, ions, Jim Baggott, photons, physicists, physics, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat, thought experiment, weirdness}

Here Is a New Interpretation for That Alive-and-Dead Quantum Cat

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Schrödinger’s cat has got to be the most famous cat in science. He’s really a thought experiment. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, domestic animals, elephants, England, flies, grasses, infusoria, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, oaks, On the Origin of Species, pigeon-fanciers, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Roderick Murchison, Siluria, Thomas Henry Huxley, truffles, turnips, variations, Vestiges of Creation, whales, worms, zoophyte}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, apes, awareness, bonobos, cats, Dogs, humans, Johns Hopkins University, Neurologica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, puppy, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Steven Novella, theory of mind, ZME Science}

As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind”

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 19, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 13, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract, animal intelligence, babies, cats, Dogs, human mind, humans, intelligence, Live Science, muscles, Oakland University}

Cat Versus Baby Intelligence: A Comparison

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 13, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Cat intelligence is of a rather different kind from dog intelligence (to say nothing of human intelligence). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, animal intelligence, animals, babies, Big Bang, bonobos, cats, children, counting, Dogs, intelligence, kittens, Live Science, neuroscience, numbers, pets, puppies, Stanley Coren, Stonehenge, University of British Columbia}

Dog Versus Baby Intelligence: A Comparison

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It’s an odd question because what we should be asking is, “Are kittens and puppies smarter than babies?” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, cats, Charles Lyell, Darwin Mythology, deism, designer, history, mice, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, variations}

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 8, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cats, chimpanzees, Dogs, gorillas, great apes, humans, infants, mouse, Popular Science, researchers, Switzerland, voices}

Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 8, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Read More ›