Grooming_de_Zoé Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date February 19, 2025 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal behavior, apes, awareness, bonobos, cats, Dogs, humans, Johns Hopkins University, Neurologica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, puppy, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Steven Novella, theory of mind, ZME Science As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind” Denyse O’Leary February 19, 2025 Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait? Read More ›
bubbles Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 12, 2021 CategoriesPhysical Sciences Tagged , atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, evolution, multiverse, Neurologica, Phillip Goff, probability, Steven Novella We Don’t Live in a Multiverse Because the Concept Makes No Sense Michael Egnor March 12, 2021 Physical Sciences 4 Novella and Goff invoke “multiple everything” while at the same time defining “everything” in a way that precludes observation. Nonsense has its uses. Read More ›
lab mouse Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 11, 2020 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, brain activity, brain hemispheres, consciousness, dualism, human brain, materialism, mice, mind-brain debate, Neurologica, neuroscience, Steven Novella, Yale University Has Neuroscience “Proved” that the Mind Is Just the Brain? Michael Egnor December 11, 2020 Neuroscience & Mind 3 Yale's Steven Novella has been trying to sell his materialist ideology in the guise of neuroscience for more than a decade. Read More ›
