Animal minds
In a Thai zoo, pigs are given tiger cubs to raise
Fri Nite Frite: Have we done a snake frite lately?
Do any animals have a true language?, asks the Washington Post
Turns out, human parents can learn a lot from animals. Huh?
New Zealand crows get smarter every time we study them
Trackways show, animals 50 million years ago used Levy random walk to search for food
Wasp fills nest vestibule with dead ants, sees fewer predators
Claim: Chimpanzee gestures only form of intentional animal communication
Harmless snakes mimic an extinct poisonous snake
Claim: Rats show regret
Did animal intelligence begin with Tiktaalik. Smithsonian article asks?
Minds, brains and computing vs contemplation
One of the underlying debates linked to the design issue is the notorious mind-brain gap challenge. It keeps coming up, and on both sides of the ID debate. I would therefore like to spark a bit of discussion with a clip from a Scott Aaronson Physics course lecture: >> . . . If we interpret the Church-Turing Thesis as a claim about physical reality, then it should encompass everything in that reality, including the goopy neural nets between your respective ears. This leads us, of course, straight into the cratered intellectual battlefield that I promised to lead you into. As a historical remark, it’s interesting that the possibility of thinking machines isn’t something that occurred to people gradually, after they’d Read More ›