(September 2, 2012 at 2:12 pm)Atom Wrote: Maybe the Jays like eating maggots or flies. What do you think they were doing?Here is a longer summary and the opportunity to purchase the original research paper, "Western scrub-jay funerals: cacophonous aggregations in response to dead conspecifics". Go ahead, Atom, show us the part where it refers to the Jays eating maggots or flies during the events. Ignore all the other behaviour descriptions and analytic controls. Is that what you do?
Meanwhile, here is a an interesting paper, Evolution of Cooperation in Multiplex Networks, an example of the fact that given a basic level of reciprocal gameplay strategy, as observed in humans, a complex level of co-operation can emerge. Fancy that.
I see that there are still no takers on how a christian receives their godly commands and how this is reliably differentiable from corresponding notions in believers in other faiths. Perhaps this publicly available paper on some well-designed research will help: "Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs".
They make it up as they go along and call it a message from god. That is why "objective morality" is dangerous.
All of the above titles provide links to the papers in question.