pipistrelle Type post Author Eric Cassell Date May 2, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness Eric Cassell May 2, 2024 Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 7 A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›
black garden ants Type post Author Eric Cassell Date June 1, 2022 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMathematicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , algorithms, animals, ants, decisions, foraging, gambling, heuristic, humans, Mary Olmstead, neurons, pigeons, rationality, rats, reward, risk, Valerie Kuhlmeier Animal Algorithms: Ant Foraging Is a “Rational” Behavior Eric Cassell June 1, 2022 Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Of course, ants and other animals do not make decisions in a “conscious” manner as humans would. Instead they rely on algorithms. Read More ›
