octopus (intelligence) – Uncommon Descent

At Mind Matters News: British government moves to protect octopuses from cruelty

Researchers are probing why some invertebrates are as smart as vertebrates. It seems that there is no straightforward evolutionary path to smartness.

chuckdarwin Post-doc researcher in what? Is this guy a bona fide scientist or another "philosopher of science"? None of his bio... – Finnish author, Rope Kojonen, has two...
polistra The conventional picture puts language late in evolution, and writing much later. The brain disagrees. Speaking and hearing and READING... – When the Smithsonian does human origins…...
zweston Sev & CD's worldview represent the black knight of Monty Python. I'd just like to know if they have ever... – In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen...
bornagain77 "and you keep him/her alive." Well actually no that would be God, through His grace, Who patiently keeps Seversky alive,... – In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen...
Anaxagoras DR Kojonen has clearly explained that by Evolution he means macroevolution by neo-darwinian mechanisms, random mutations and natural selection. it... – Finnish author, Rope Kojonen, has two...
Lieutenant Commander Data Bornagain77 Thus in conclusion, Seversky... ...is a troll and you keep him/her alive. – In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen...
jerry do you think that Biden’s Buy American order is appropriate? If so, why? If not, why not? I didn’t know... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
asauber So... I was watching an X Files rerun last night, and the episode I saw had Scully, in some really... – AI helps us see previously unknown...
Joe Schooner Jerry, do you think that Biden’s Buy American order is appropriate? If so, why? If not, why not? Or, to... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
jerry When someone is in a hole, they should stop digging. I have been studying economics for over 30 years and... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
bornagain77 Now to Seversky's second unfounded presupposition, i.e. Seversky necessarily presupposes "a place of certainty" from which he can form 'a... – In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen...
bornagain77 Seversky claims, "To refute atheism you would need to demonstrate the existence of a god/creator/supreme designer beyond a reasonable doubt.... – In time for American Thanksgiving: Stephen...
Joe Schooner PPS: ponder on so-called green malinvestment and implications. Sewer systems, wastewater treatment, recycling, atmospheric discharge treatment, laws around the handling... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
chuckdarwin That's actually pretty clever, ET. My hat's off to you... – How did a mammoth tusk from...
mahuna Well, yes, but there remains the origin for Migration itself. That is, Migration can't work Incrementally. How do you know... – Eric Cassell on the mystery of...
ET So chuckdarwin thinks that Charles Darwin put the mammoth tusks in the ocean.... – How did a mammoth tusk from...
kairosfocus PPS: ponder on so-called green malinvestment and implications. – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
kairosfocus PS: I suspect ignorance of sound economics is rather widespread including some who have studied it. Here is my quick... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
kairosfocus Jerry, the largest example of an explicitly "Socialist" polity and economy with wide cultural diversity was one certain . .... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
mohammadnursyamsu @Joe Schooner Socialism such as nazism and communism, is not a rational proposition. It is only interesting as an ideological... – Dinesh D'Souza on socialism:
chuckdarwin Surely this is the work of the Great Deceiver….. – How did a mammoth tusk from...