Tag: pain

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, brains, chimpanzees, Darwinian assumptions, humans, intelligence, mice, moral choice, nature, Nautilus, neurons, octopuses, pain, primates, reason, researchers, rodents, self-awareness}

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 22, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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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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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American South, autobiography, Bible, California, clocks, health, inflammation, Journal of Experimental Psychology, motivation, naturalists, nature, pain, physiology, thinking}

Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Faith & Science

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The famous naturalist put human inventions aside to reap the benefits of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

10}

The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

6}

A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, Animal Liberation, babies, birth canal, brain, developmental biology, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, Roman Catholic, Russia, tissue, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

13}

Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, babies, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwin Day in America, developmental biology, Drosophila melanogaster, empirical science, fallopian tube, fertilization, fetus, gastrulation, Haeckel’s embryos, Homo sapiens, human being, humans, identical twins, John West, Lewis Wolpert, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, mother, pain, Roman Catholic, zygote}

Why Should a Baby Live?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 8, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

10}

My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›

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Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, Gizmodo, humans, illness, imagination, medication, medicine, mice, neurons, neuroscience, pain, researchers, University of North Carolina}

Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

_{Science and Culture
August 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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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 ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›