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Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›
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Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›
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The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

The need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants. Read More ›
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When Bumblebees Cheat at Games

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the findings is in light of the fact that the bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). Read More ›
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Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›
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Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Read More ›
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Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›
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Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›
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Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›
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On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it.  Read More ›

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