Author: Denyse O'Leary
Loving Goodbye…from an Octopus?
Did the science teacher’s octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?
Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There
Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation.
Darwinian Biologist Resists Learning to Live with Panpsychism
Jerry Coyne is having a hard time understanding why anyone would even consider taking panpsychism seriously.
Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There
The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science.
University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive
James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive.”