bumblebees – Uncommon Descent

Animal minds Mind

Bumblebees can learn from each other – but why not?

Setting aside the riff on “advanced eating techniques (insects have different eating parts in any event), the big takeaway here is that chimps and dolphins are not much smarter than bumblebees. Humans are still the Big Exception.

Animal minds Intelligent Design Mind

Bumblebees can solve puzzles like chimps?

Human exceptionalism is becoming more obvious all the time, just harder to admit.

Origenes CR @ Hyper skepticism is a claim that we know nothing. I’m not a hyper skeptic. This a false dilemma.... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @KF CR: While this seemed like a good foundation roughly 100 years ago, when empiricism was conceived, KF: Not relevant... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist 1: No-one has sought to define knowledge as justified, true belief, as a clue, consider the import of “warrant” in... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @Origenes 99 I have made an earlier attempt to read this alleged “refutation” of Dykes and failed. An earlier attempt... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist PyrrhoManiac1 Slightly off-topic, but related: I recently read Erik Larson’s The Myth of Artificial Intelligence in which abduction — or... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Origenes CR @98 I have made an earlier attempt to read this alleged "refutation" of Dykes and failed. Totally unreadable. – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @Origenes Your advice, please. While you could have searched for it, the link to the refutation of Dykes on Popper... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
bornagain77 Off topic: A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications David Coppedge - March 27, 2023 Excerpt: Research... – If two snowflakes are identical, does...
Origenes With all the negativity aimed at "empiricism", and the intense distrust of our senses, one has to wonder how fallibilism... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus CR, continuing, on theory laden observations etc, per your clip: >>Empiricism is the idea that all knowledge comes to us... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
PyrrhoManiac1 I don't know much Popper, but from what's being reported here about his views, I should give him some serious... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus CR, I respond on points: >>Knowledge is not justified, true belief.>> 1: No-one has sought to define knowledge as justified,... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Origenes CR Deutsch: “And since inductivism is false, empiricism must be as well." Question: is Deutsch's theory about inductivism mere unjustifiable... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist Already addressed. But, to again quote Deutsch... “And since inductivism is false, empiricism must be as well. For if one... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Ford Prefect Alan Fox writes: He may have done and I’ve missed it but I doubt he would have received the courtesy... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Origenes CR Theory aways comes first. You are a Popperian through and through. Dykes also refutes this weird idea: Popper’s notion... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist We the little people know nothing, we do not even know that the sun will come up tomorrow. This is... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist You mean the... "a lot of stuff on Hume’s position on induction, not Popper’s", mentioned above? Popper's solution to the... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Origenes Dykes quoting Popper on Hume According to Popper, Hume had shown that: “there is no argument of reason which permits... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
asauber CR, :lemon: Andrew – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist It appears you merely looked for references that suited your purpose. Why am I not supprised? From A Refutation of... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...