Tag: octopuses
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?
Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant.
How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”
Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes.
If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?
We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds).
Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?
Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too.