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Denyse O'Leary
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November 5, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Can AI help us talk to whales? Maybe. But then what?

Denyse O'Leary
November 5, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
In the real world, if we succeed in communicating with whales, it will be much like communicating successfully with dogs, cats, and horses. None of them are furry people. Whales are not blubbery people either. They won’t bring us closer to understanding what sets humans apart than dogs will. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Nervous systems alone do not cause consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
One-celled intelligence aside, it’s unclear how Antonio Damasio’s ladder of consciousness, built on self-balancing and death avoidance, gets us the human mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 8, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Does a chimp mom who carries a dead baby around understand death?

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
The point about death — as a human understands it — is that the deceased loved one is never coming back. That is why human mothers do not carry a dead baby around for months. The primates’ behavior definitely demonstrates grief in the sense of attachment but also makes clear that they don’t understand what death means. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 7, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon: Migrating birds’ mysterious quantum sense is “spooky”

Denyse O'Leary
October 7, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: "Since this sensing is happening at the level of electron spins and excitation, it is an inherently QM [quantum mechanical] effect, hence the title of the article." The spooky part is how finely tuned the bird's sensitivity is: "Packing a $10,000 lock-in amplifier into a 2 micron cell." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Did minimal consciousness drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Where their approach differs from many is that they do not try to identify a mechanism of consciousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
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At Mind Matters News: Do brains really evolve? The horseshoe crab’s brain didn’t

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
At Science News: "The preserved central nervous system lends insight into the ancient crab’s behavior, the researchers say. Because the fossil brain is so similar to the brains of modern horseshoe crabs, Bicknell says, it’s safe to say the ancient animal’s walking, breathing and even feeding habits were probably similar to horseshoe crabs’ today, including eating with their legs. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 22, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design
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On a lighter note: Maybe that sea snake mistakes you for a mate

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design
Basically, snakes can be stupider than we think and smarter than we think at the same time. Except, around here, we don’t think that the “smartness” stuff is the snakes’ own. They got that from the design of the universe. Otherwise, they would be coiling around the stock market too. And they aren’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Defending the mind’s reality at a materialist cocktail party

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
What to say when you find yourself among self-assured elite sloganeers. The actual history of neuroscience in the last century has not been kind to materialist assertions and assumptions. Read More ›