TROPICAL SYNAPSES
Reflections on topics including clinical neurology, recent publications in neuroscience,
philosophy of biology, "neuro-doubt" about modern media hype of new neuro-scientific procedures and methods, consciousness, scuba diving, horticulture, jazz, blues, slack key guitar music, the Hawai'i health scene, and whatever else dat's da kine...
I am currently reading The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins, published just last month, which is a very long and thought provoking book. Thoughts in the first few chapters: What is culture, and does the passing along of learning between animals in a community constitute culture? How alike are we in our human cultures to animals which lack the rich content of human languages? I'll do a review when I'm finished. But, it's off to listen to whale song underwater here, now.
Where is the color of what we see? Is it part of the object we see? Is it in the light from that object? Is it in our eyes, our retinas? O...
Puhi Bay: One Chaetodon quadrimaculatus (Fourspot butterflyfish) and two Chaetodon auriga (Threadfin butterflyfish)
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