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Denyse O'Leary
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January 20, 2020
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Claims about the origin of language admitted to be “highly speculative”

Denyse O'Leary
January 20, 2020
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
In a pop science outlet, no less. What? Weren’t chimpanzees learning to talk just last year or something? It's almost like some people want to take language seriously now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 17, 2020
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At Salvo: The language barrier with animals is not a “cultural construct”

Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2020
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language, Naturalism
If human intelligence is an accidental outcropping of the animal world, a sufficiently diligent researcher may expect to find the same intelligence in many other animals. But, so the argument runs, we are too prejudiced to see it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 9, 2020
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Researchers: Dogs co-operate as well as wolves

Denyse O'Leary
January 9, 2020
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design
“The researchers point out that, although the kind of coordination shown in the present study may rely on more simple mechanisms than full, conscious cooperation, … ” Surely no one thinks that dogs or wolves have a theory of co-operation? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 17, 2019
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At New Scientist: Human intelligence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Denyse O'Leary
December 17, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
A working definition of intelligence defeats us for the same reasons as a working definition of beauty defeats us. Once abstractions become instantiated, they are laden with particulars. That does NOT mean that the idea is without meaning. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2019
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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The Paris Zoo “blob”: What exactly IS the role of the brain in processing information?

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
"Polycephalum’s type of organism is thought to have existed for roughly a billion years though it has only been studied intensively in recent decades. It is technically called a “protist” (a catch-all category for life forms that are hard to classify). It makes decisions with no apparent source of intelligence." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2019
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Animal studies tend to show that the human experience is unique

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
Many people assume that human consciousness arose accidentally many eons ago from animal consciousness and that therefore we can find glimmers of the same sort of consciousness in the minds of animals. But that approach isn’t producing the expected results. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 19, 2019
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Remember when dolphins could talk?

Denyse O'Leary
August 19, 2019
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
"The Green Bank Conference (1961), to which Lilly introduced "Dolphinese," was a serious science meeting. The conferees were “totally enthralled” by the idea that communicating with dolphins would open to door to communicating with innumerable types of extraterrestrial intelligence… " Read More ›