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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
January 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Africa, animal behavior, anthropology, antiquity, BBC News, Bronze Age, chimpanzees, Côte D’Ivoire, dehumanization, England, Homo sapiens, human mind, humans, Ice Age, Merlin, monkeys, polar bears, Stone Age, stone tools, Stonehenge, tools, vultures}

Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism

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January 31, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology, Science Reporting

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Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, human mind, human nature, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, physical processes, soul, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind}

Materialism Is a Totalistic Claim — Here’s Why That Matters

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August 19, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are aspects of the mind that are not generated in the brain. That sounds like a modest claim. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cooking, Darwinian theory, horses, human mind, human origins, Neanderthals, Portugal, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science}

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

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June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Christof Koch, Commentary, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William A. Dembski}

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 5, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, compound eyes, development, entomology, evolution, eyes, Flight, fruit flies, gene expression, human mind, insects, intelligent design, motor neurons, Nature Communications, Queen Mary University London, senses, wings}

Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems

_{David Coppedge
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›