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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, biotechnology, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, hemispheres, language, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, split-brain patients, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, sound, thought}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, analogy, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, emotions, Frank Drake, J.B.S. Haldane, language, neocortex, neuroscience, persistent scientific errors, Pulitzer Prize, reptiles, textbooks, The Atlantic, Yale University}

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2023

Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Big Bang, cosmogony, Genesis, homologies, ideology, language, Michelangelo’s David, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, perverse incentives, phrenology, Richard Lewontin, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Theory of Everything, Tom Wolfe}

Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

_{Neil Thomas
August 18, 2022

Cosmology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 15, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __tedited, “consensus science”, language, Noam Chomsky, politicization, popular opinion, The Kingdom of Speech}

An Evolutionary View on Speech Isn’t “Settled Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 15, 2016

Evolution, Linguistics, Science Reporting

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And in large part it isn't even about science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 1, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __tedited, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, language, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, Western civilization}

Tom Wolfe: Human Exceptionalist

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 1, 2016

Bioethics

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The ubiquitous attacks on human exceptionalism are one of the current age's worst decadent tendencies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words}

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›

-powered language translation software for global communication

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
August 16, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, artificial intelligence, Big Data, deep learning, games, intuition, language, Neural Networks, semantic information, specialization, translation}

Artificial Intelligence and the Language Barrier

_{Brendan Dixon
August 16, 2016

Computational Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you have a few free minutes, try, for fun, filling them with Google Translate. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 19, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals}

Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language

_{Michael Egnor
July 19, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 18, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal}

Are Birdsongs Language?

_{Michael Egnor
July 18, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›