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The New Science of Animal Minds
- when we examine animal behaviour through a more collective lens, we begin to see that large portions of complex brains are hungry to work in harmony with others
from How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another by Sofia Quaglia
Keely Adler added
- In his apt and timely new book, "The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent — and Reinvent — Our Identities," Berns, author of "How Dogs Love Us," explores the neuroscience of self perception and the clever, confounding ways we attempt to tell the stories of our lives.
from The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns
Laura Pike Seeley added
- Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
Mary Martin added