honey bee Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date November 26, 2023 CategoriesLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , bats, bees, behavior, chimpanzees, consciousness, crows, elephants, emotion, exothermic life, human consciousness, humans, insects, joy, Lars Chittka, octopuses, pain, Scientific American, sentience, Thomas Nagel What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds? Denyse O’Leary November 26, 2023 Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›
Barbie Type post Author Peter Biles Date August 8, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , body, girls, joy, men, movies, Oppenheimer, Public Discourse, transhumanism, women Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism? Peter Biles August 8, 2023 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 3 The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Read More ›
friends and a dog Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 28, 2022 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindScience Tagged , abstraction, crying, Dogs, emotions, joy, pain, pets, Research, Scientific Reports, Smithsonian Magazine, tears, The Scientist Study: Dogs Cry for Joy as Well as Pain Denyse O’Leary August 28, 2022 Neuroscience & Mind, Science 4 That shouldn’t really be too surprising because the fact that humans and dogs can share emotions is part of what forms bonds between us. Read More ›
fear Type post Author Geoffrey Simmons Date May 24, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMedicine Tagged , compassion, coronavirus, courage, Doctor's Diary (series), emotions, fear, intelligent design, joy, love, pain, pandemic, patients, physicians Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer Geoffrey Simmons May 24, 2020 Intelligent Design, Medicine 2 As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always. Read More ›
