Animal sentience is linked to the bigger picture of climate and health crises “carnism” a factor in dissonance among (1) knowing animals are sentient, (2) caring about their feelings, (3) not acting accordingly. We discuss our responsibility as researchers individual human beings.

Human beings have a sophisticated ability to reason about the minds of others, often referred to as using one's theory of mind or mentalizing. Just like any other cognitive ability, people engage in reasoning about other minds when it seems useful for achieving particular goals, but this ability remains disengaged otherwise. We suggest that understanding the factors that engage our ability to r...

I argue that arguments for the existence of God provide indirect support other supernatural beings such as spirits. defend three arguments: (i) spirits is more likely if there a realm; (ii) an omnibenevolent makes use messengers; (iii) sacred scriptures attest to all and them against objections.

Beside the regularly applied concepts (e.g. neuron, brain, sign, representation, code, sense, experience, perception, etc.) an additional collection of concepts (entities, interaction, border, inhomogeneity, dialectics, necessity and contingency, freedom, historicity, acquaintance and knowledge, culture.) is proposed for the better understanding mind and cognition. An anti-Parmenidian ontology ...

Given that mythmakers must construct stories that ore comprehensible to their audience, it is reasonable to expect stories to be conceptually natural even when their topics deal with the supernatural. Thus, OS stories ore adapted to human conceptual structure, they should reflect characteristics of that structure. An examination of the types of magical transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses on...

Habitat loss and anthropogenic pressures, coupled with the existing slender loris trade for cultural practices, are a cause grave concern. Numerous deep-rooted superstitious beliefs rituals continue to thrive in modern India, this is potentially one of major threats India's already imperilled population. More research into prevalence use black magic needed assess impact on species sustainabilit...

living beings were constantly arising out of dead matter. Maggots were suposed to be generated spontaneously in decaying meat. In 1668 Redi showed that this did not happen provided insects were carefully excluded. And in 1860 Pasteur extended the proof to the bacteria which he had shown were the cause of putrefaction. It seemed fairly clear that all the living beings known to us originate from ...