Varbuss Type post Author Eric Cassell Date March 14, 2025 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectome, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, feeding, information, intelligent design, interneurons, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, mating, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuropeptide, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, sensory neurons, serotonin, synapses “Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple Eric Cassell March 14, 2025 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 9 Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›
sleep Type post Author Eric Hedin Date December 12, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , acetylcholine, amygdala, birds, brain, brainstem, cerebrospinal fluid, dopamine, dreaming, Flight, hippocampus, Howard Glicksman, humans, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, mice, neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, reptiles, sleep, speed, Steve Laufmann, strength, thalamus, unconsciousness, wakefulness, waking, Your Designed Body Sleep — Designed for Our Good Eric Hedin December 12, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›
chimp Type post Date September 2, 2022 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindScienceScientific Reasoning Tagged , asymmetry, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, dopamine, FOXP2, humans, intelligence, macaque, memory, nerve fibers, Peter Hess, primates, speech, thinking, Yale University More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ Science and Culture September 2, 2022 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Scientific Reasoning 3 Underlying the significant differences in brain — to say nothing of the vast difference in mind — is a genetic mystery. Read More ›
honey bee Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 13, 2022 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindScience Tagged , BBC, bees, consciousness, Dogs, dopamine, insect rights, intelligence, James Shapiro, Lars Chittka, materialism, New Scientist, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, sensations, The Mind of a Bee, The Scientist, University of Chicago, waggle dance What Is It Like to Be a Bee? Denyse O’Leary August 13, 2022 Neuroscience & Mind, Science 4 What, exactly, does “consciousness” or “feel and think” mean when applied to a bee? This usage is no remote outpost. Read More ›
Human_dopaminergic_neurons_scale-1 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 31, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, adult stem cells, dopamine, embryos, Kyoto University, monkeys, neurons, regenerative medicine, Research, skin cells, stem cells Ethical Stem Cells Relieve Parkinson’s in Monkeys Wesley J. Smith August 31, 2017 Bioethics, Medicine 3 The advance of ethical stem cell research continues exponentially. Read More ›
