Tag: cuttlefish

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ant swarms, Audrey Dussutour, biology, brain, carbon, cognition, consciousness, cuttlefish, eliminative materialism, eyes, fungi, Hokkaido University, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, jellyfish, limbs, Michael Levin, mouth, nuclei, oat flakes, panpsychism, Physarum polycephalum, plants, protoplasm, Samanth Subramanian, silicon, The Guardian, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trees}

Slime Smarts: These Brainless Blobs Are Brighter than You Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some want to claim that slime molds poses a threat to the idea that humans are exceptional. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, asocial brain, body temperature, brain, cephalopods, cuttlefish, dog, dolphins, ectotherm, endotherms, habitat, intelligence, iScience, Jennifer Mather, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, mammals, mirror, Natural History Museum, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, octopus, ScienceAlert, shellfish, social brain, squid, University of Lethbridge, whales}

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, amphibians, animal rights, bees, cognition, consciousness, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Dan Falk, eliminative materialism, fish, insects, lobsters, memory, nature rights, Nautilus, New York University, octopuses, Phys.org, Quanta, reptiles, sentience, squid, Thomas Nagel}

What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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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 ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 6, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, camouflage, cuttlefish, Darwinian mechanisms, fitness landscapes, Irreducible Complexity, MIT, mutations, NBC, Office of Naval Research, probabilistic resources, reverse-engineering, skin, Systems Biology, Washington Post}

Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish

_{Daniel Witt
March 6, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animals, birds, cats, cuttlefish, dolphins, dreaming, horses, information, learning, memory, rapid eye movement, sleep, Smithsonian Magazine, spiders, thought, whales}

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 3, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Biomimetics, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Living Waters, molecular clock, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Paul Nelson, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago}

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

_{David Coppedge
February 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, birds, bread, chimpanzees, cuttlefish, Homer, humans, intelligence, Stanford University, timing}

Researchers: More Intelligent Jays Show More Self-Control

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The researchers say that the same relationship holds true for cuttlefish, chimpanzees, and humans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bees, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, emotion, entomologists, Eric Cassell, insects, intelligent design, invertebrates, lobsters, neuroscience, octopuses, predators, snails, squid, University of Minnesota, vertebrates}

Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. Read More ›