Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Dog Buttons

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This isn't about fastenings for canine clothes. It's about electronic buttons dogs use to communicate: Talking Dog Buttons The a...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Plant Neurobiology?

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In reference to my July 25 post on "plant intelligence," coincidentally the September/October 2024 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER con...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Plant Intelligence

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A new nonfiction book, THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoe Schlanger, delves deeply into the potential of plant intelligence. According to the blurb, s...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Do Plants Think?

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A relatively recent (2021) article on plant intelligence, which includes an interview with Monica Gagliano, a professor in Evolutionary Ecol...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Is Time Travel Impossible?

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A character in C. S. Lewis's posthumously published novel fragment THE DARK TOWER asserts it is. (Granted, one faction within Lewis scho...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Is Consciousness an Illusion?

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A famous psychological experiment in the 1980s seemed to prove that the brain "decides" to take actions before the conscious mind ...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Self-Aware Cells?

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The September-October issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER reviewed a book called THE FIRST MINDS: CATERPILLARS, 'KARYOTES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS, by...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Undersea Aliens

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Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor at the University of Sydney and City University of New York, believes the octopus is the closest thing to ...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Insect Consciousness?

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A honeybee scientist, Andrew Barron, and a philosopher, Colin Klein, have collaborated on a study that suggests insects may have consciousne...