Tag: neuroscience
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.
Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?
Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong.
How Frogs and Fish “Count”
We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed.
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.
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”?