Author: Denyse O'Leary
Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind
When a disease affects the brain-body relationship, the placebo response can confound researchers.
Cats Recognize and Respond to Our Voices
If you are a cat’s human friend, he cares when you talk to him. Whether he will, or even can, do what you want is a separate question.
Birds Have a Remarkable Gift for Deceit
The birds themselves are not agents making a moral choice to deceive; they are carrying out a behavior pattern they have inherited.
Two-Headed Tortoise with Two Personalities?
Many would be surprised to learn that either head had any personality at all, and yet…
Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”?