James Bridle – Uncommon Descent

Animal minds Convergent evolution Evolution Intelligent Design

At Mind Matters News: Octopuses create an “origin of intelligence” conundrum

The evolution of intelligence in mammals and birds could be dismissed as a fluke. Finding far-distant intelligent life forms suggests a pattern instead. But what is it?

Origenes ~ follow-up #299 ~ On the problem of explaining reason naturalistically, Nagel writes: the obstacles seem enormous. In light of... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 Q, that is a nice home experiment, but, as you know, where things get really weird is when you send... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Querius Bornagain77 @181, Per Q in 175, “Other people simply hide behind ignorance by claiming that there’s a lot of controversy,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Querius Chuckdarwin @180, Collapse of the wave function? Come on folks…… Unlike Darwinian evolution, multiple direct experimental results have confirmed quantum... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
relatd CD at 180, "So why in the world would anyone take seriously the pretentious, jargon-ladened comments found on this blog... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. BTW, your last slide is crooked…… – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd Vb at 17, I never said the military said anything. Whatever this Chinese balloon was carrying will never be known.... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd Ba77, I doubt many here have seen a sine wave on an oscilloscope. Strangely, the wave moves up and down.... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
vividbleau Related “I’ve spent many years studying the military” Then you should know better than to believe the military. They lied... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
bornagain77 Per Q in 175, "Other people simply hide behind ignorance by claiming that there’s a lot of controversy, no one... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin You got to love it when these comments take on a life of their own and wander off into la,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 JVL as to: But you do realise that the wave function is just a model of the reality, it’s not... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Origenes Gorden Hawkes on Haldane: Haldane originally argued that “if materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Vb at 15, I've spent many years studying the military. What did the Chinese get? We don't know. But I... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
vividbleau Related at 13 Are you so naive that you believe the stuff coming from our military and politicians mouths? Why... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
vividbleau It is fascinating and just frankly bizarre to hear someone say that, out loud, as if it were a perfectly... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd Vb at 2, What the heck are you talking about? "A side note how crazy is this Chinese spy balloon?... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
relatd PM1 at 11, I watched American, and Western, society gradually decay starting around 1967. "I mean, I’m on the left,... – Os Guinness: The Magna Carta of...
bornagain77 Of related note to the main topic of the thread, "Harvard Astronomer: The Wonders Of The Universe Point To A... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
JVL Bornagain77: First off, the experiments are NOT saying that our consciousness is collapsing the infinite dimensional/infinite information wave function, Okay... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
JVL William J Murray: The only “realistic” way to deal with “the past” is to recognize it for what it is... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...