Tag: fish

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human 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

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bats, birds, birth canal, carbon dioxide, caves, Charles Darwin, DNA, eggs, evolution, fish, flipping, forme frust, genetics, giraffes, hanging, horses, intelligent design, Keep It Simple Sailor, mammals, neo-Darwinists, New York Post, nutrients, organs, oxygen, porcupines, quills, red blood cells, singing, skunks, The God Proofs, waste products, wings, young people}

Doctor’s Diary: Have We Overlooked Common Sense?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
January 20, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

8}

Take bats, for example. Many types eat upside down, yet they flip to eliminate wastes. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amphibians, bacteria, birds, complexity, cryptochromes, electrons, fish, insects, intelligent design, magnetic compass, magnetic field, magnetite, magnetoreception, mammals, Monarch butterflies, navigation, reptiles, Science (journal), vertebrates, zoology}

Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

_{Eric Cassell
December 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Zoology

8}

It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, birds, eggs, evolution, fish, fleas, Francesco Redi, Giuseppe Sermonti, life, meat, microbes, Nobel Prize, reptiles, spontaneous generation, viruses, worms}

Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 17, 2025

Biology, Zoology

4}

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cows, EMBO Reports, evolution, fingernails, fish, flies, health, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), protocells, storytelling, supernova, Titan}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, fish, intelligence, larvae, migration, Nautilus, Norway, plankton, spawning, zooplankton}

When Schools of Fish Lose Their Memories

_{Science & Culture
July 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

4}

Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, birds, cars, cave bears, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, natural selection, reptiles, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, intelligence, intelligent design, lobsters, mammals, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, snakes}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, babies, fish, gestating human babies, image of God, insects, invertebrates, life, mammals, microbes, moral responsibility, NYU, philosophers, universe}

Microbes as “Moral Agents”? Bioethicist Says Yes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 14, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Australian National University, cleverness, females, fish, intelligence, males, octopuses, Research, sexual selection}

Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t. Read More ›