Category: Neuroscience & Mind
When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together
When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes.
Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?
The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences.
Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders.
Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution
Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations?
Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.