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Teenage Dolphins Get High on Puffer Fish Toxin

I’m not in anyway surprised! Like us, they are conscious animals facing down a stark, brutal, universe… whatever works to take the edge off. https://kottke.org/18/10/teenage-dolphins-get-high-on-puffer-fish-toxin Bottom line these creatures are people; Singularity’s Children like us …which happens to be one of the key themes in my books. Also reminds me of this: “Parrot tells rescuer … Continue reading “Teenage Dolphins Get High on Puffer Fish Toxin”

What is Consciousness?

Image: Kevin Philippe I take some ideas from my SciFi novels on the nature of Consciousness and Reality and flesh them out to make them explicit. I do touch on some of this in Book Three, but in a novel, I didn’t want to slow down the story by digressing too much into philosophy. Don’t … Continue reading “What is Consciousness?”

Clever Ravens

Animals are smart, much smarter than we usually give them credit for… These Ravens show advanced planning, and more impressively, self-control. Our last common ancestor was over 300Million years ago, so they are basically alien thinkers, most similarities are due to convergence of evolution. That some animals might be ‘people‘ is one of the premises … Continue reading “Clever Ravens”