Author Archives: James Cross

Followup to “Of Minds and Crows”

Posted on June 26, 2016

New research shows that birds have as many neurons as mid-size primates. Evolution apparently has figured out a way of packing neurons more densely. Researchers took brains from 28 different species and dissected them. Although many in the field expected … Continue reading →

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World Stuff

Posted on April 26, 2016

“Human beings are organizations of – do not let us use the philosophically tendentious word ‘matter’, but rather the neutral and philosophically non-committal term translated from the German Weltstoff – the universal ‘world stuff’. But our organization has two aspects … Continue reading →

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Of Minds and Crows

Posted on April 9, 2016

CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2310490 A fellow blogger and I had a little debate  about consciousness and awareness in non-human organisms. His view seems to be that humans are largely unique in their capabilities for awareness. My view is that humans … Continue reading →

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