Field_of_Weeds_(2636333676) Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 7, 2024 CategoriesBotanyLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , bats, climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert, František Baluška, garden, Paco Calvo, plant rights, scientists, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel, weeds, Zoë Schlanger To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question Denyse O’Leary October 7, 2024 Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 6 An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›
close-up-of-a-bacterium-under-a-microscope-with-vivid-purple-1073522108-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Daniel Witt Date April 11, 2024 CategoriesBotanyIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , archaea, Arthur S. Reber, bacteria, cells, cellular basis of consciousness, cellular cognition, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, František Baluška, fungal mind, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution, William B. Miller Jr. Was God a Bacterium? Daniel Witt April 11, 2024 Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 6 We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›
Amoeba proteus Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date June 11, 2023 CategoriesBiologyIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Arthur S. Reber, cells, central dogma, consciousness, DNA, Francis Crick, František Baluška, James Shapiro, materialism, neurons, Nobel Prize, nucleic acids, Oxford University, panpsychism, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, RNA, Scientific American, The Scientist, UCLA, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, William B. Miller Jr. Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism Denyse O’Leary June 11, 2023 Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 6 The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›
