Author Archives: James Cross

I’m Still Here. Where Are the Aliens?

Posted on September 24, 2017

As the few of you who have followed my blog might know, I haven’t posted anything in over a year. I don’t have a special explanation for this beyond that I just didn’t feel like working on something. Writing is … Continue reading →

Posted in Aliens, Fermi Paradox, Human Evolution, Origin of Life | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Consciousness, Intelligence | 15 Comments