Daily Neuron

A twenty-year diet diary from Sebangau forest shows orangutans returning to the same plant combinations, hinting at something close to pharmacy. #evolution dailyneuron.com/bornean-orangu…

The gut’s “second brain” has siblings inside the heart, lungs, and pancreas, and each organ builds its own small nervous system from scratch. #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/organ-intrinsi…

The man who gave us "I think, therefore I am" anticipated almost everything wrong with how we use ChatGPT today. #AI #Philosophy dailyneuron.com/descartes-cogi…

Pack too many worms onto a dish and an ancient protein in their bodies starts mutating their DNA. The same protein rises in crowded mice. #Space #DNA #Mutation #Evolution dailyneuron.com/crowding-induc…

The idea that reality goes down forever sounds absurd. A philosopher's new argument suggests it's no stranger than the alternative we already accept. #philosophy #reality dailyneuron.com/turtles-all-wa…

Somewhere between the chorus and the car ride home, a song becomes a friend, a teacher, a way through the dark. Clinical psychology is starting to notice. #psychology #music #Springsteen dailyneuron.com/song-as-therap…

Studies on fish, worms, and mice converge on the same picture. Interventions that extend life mostly extend the period of decline. #evolution #health #longevity dailyneuron.com/the-hidden-cos…

Freud's death drive meets modern neuroscience, mapping how psychosis can pull a mind into fragmentation or into endless connection. #psychology #neuroscience #consciousness dailyneuron.com/death-drive-ps…

The unconscious mind can't operate in total darkness; evolution required it to surface into awareness to be of any use. #cogsci #philosophy #consciousness dailyneuron.com/unconscious-mi…

Population growth in finite environments follows the same math as Kelly betting, a gambling strategy designed to maximize long-term returns without going broke. #evolution dailyneuron.com/gambling-formu…

Complex life depends on cells that stop reproducing, but only large organisms can afford that sacrifice. #evolution dailyneuron.com/why-complex-li…

Fungi send directional electrical signals through their networks, suggesting fungi electrical signals existed long before animals evolved neurons. #neuroscience #evolution dailyneuron.com/fungi-electric…

A philosopher argues that AI beliefs can’t exist because belief, by definition, requires a relationship to truth that language models lack. #philosophy #AI #beliefs dailyneuron.com/ai-beliefs-imp…

Perception and memory rely on overlapping brain circuits, meaning what you see is partly constructed from what you've seen before. #cogsci #neuroscience #philosophy dailyneuron.com/perception-and…

A philosophy debate asks whether mirrors trick the brain into a picture-like experience rather than showing us the real world directly. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/mirrors-trick-…

A philosopher argues that parallel worlds in quantum theory don't branch or diverge but split apart like classical waves, reshaping a decades-old debate. #physics #philosophy dailyneuron.com/parallel-world…

New research argues free will survived neuroscience's assault. Two papers expose cracks in determinism's case against human agency. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/free-will-is-n…

Researchers find that when cheap, symbolic gestures can build a reputation, it becomes harder to maintain social trust and the cooperation that depends on it. #evolution dailyneuron.com/social-trust-r…

A new analysis argues that the current debate on AI consciousness reveals more about the limits of our scientific methods than it does about machines. #cogsci #consciousness #AI dailyneuron.com/the-debate-on-…

To make sense of suicide, the human mind constructs explanatory narratives, and the ease of this process dictates our level of shock. #philosophy dailyneuron.com/our-minds-crea…