Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness

FBM de Waal - PLoS Biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The mirror mark test has encouraged a binary view of self-awareness according to which a
few species possess this capacity whereas others do not. Given how evolution works …

Transplantation of human brain organoids: revisiting the science and ethics of brain chimeras

HI Chen, JA Wolf, R Blue, MM Song, JD Moreno… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Recent demonstrations of human brain organoid transplantation in rodents have
accentuated ethical concerns associated with these entities, especially as they relate to …

[图书][B] Cognitive development and cognitive neuroscience: The learning brain

U Goswami - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

[图书][B] Mama's last hug: Animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves

F De Waal - 2019 - books.google.com
A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing
Award" Game-changing."—Sy Montgomery, New York Times Book Review Mama's Last …

[图书][B] Blueprint: The evolutionary origins of a good society

NA Christakis - 2019 - books.google.com
" A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology,
economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more"(Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint …

If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals?

M Kohda, T Hotta, T Takeyama, S Awata, H Tanaka… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The ability to perceive and recognise a reflected mirror image as self (mirror self-recognition,
MSR) is considered a hallmark of cognition across species. Although MSR has been …

[图书][B] The Amboseli elephants: a long-term perspective on a long-lived mammal

CJ Moss, H Croze, PC Lee - 2019 - degruyter.com
Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Birds of a feather? Parrot and corvid cognition compared

ML Lambert, I Jacobs, M Osvath, AMP von Bayern - Behaviour, 2019 - brill.com
The last several decades of research on avian cognition have revealed surprising parallels
between the abilities of birds—most notably corvids—and great apes. Parrots, albeit far less …

Intelligence, complexity, and individuality in sheep

L Marino, D Merskin - Animal Sentience, 2019 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are among the earliest animals domesticated for human use.
They are consumed worldwide as mutton, hogget, and lamb, kept as wool and milk …

[图书][B] Combining minds: How to think about composite subjectivity

L Roelofs - 2019 - books.google.com
Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is
possible, and what it would mean if it were. Roelofs surveys many areas of philosophy and …