{"id":590,"date":"2018-08-22T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/?p=590"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T09:35:41","slug":"do-bees-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2018\/08\/22\/do-bees-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Bees Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEMINAR: How do honey bees think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are invited to a seminar by Andrew B. Barron from the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney <a href=\"http:\/\/bio.mq.edu.au\/research\/groups\/cognitive-neuroethology\/dr-andrew-barron\/\">http:\/\/bio.mq.edu.au\/research\/groups\/cognitive-neuroethology\/dr-andrew-barron\/<\/a>\u00a0 . Andrew is a great speaker and doing some really interesting work on insect cognition (and philosophical questions arising therefrom). Let me know if you&#8217;d like to meet Andrew while he&#8217;s here, and\/or come out to dinner with him in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When: 3pm Wed 22nd August<\/p>\n<p>Where: Dental Lecture Theatre, Dental School<\/p>\n<p>Title: How do honey bees think?<\/p>\n<p>Honey bees are claimed to be capable of a spectacular array of cognitive tasks that have redefined expectations of the cognitive capacities of insects, despite their relatively tiny brain.\u00a0 Here I present neural models inspired by the known structures of the honey bee brain to propose how a honey bee might be able to solve abstract concept learning and metacognitive tasks.\u00a0 Based on this mechanistic understanding of the insect brain I discus whether it is more appropriate to consider insects like the honey bee as a thinking agent or as a mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEMINAR: How do honey bees think? &nbsp; You are invited to a seminar by Andrew B. Barron from the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney http:\/\/bio.mq.edu.au\/research\/groups\/cognitive-neuroethology\/dr-andrew-barron\/\u00a0 . Andrew is a great speaker and doing some really interesting work on insect cognition (and philosophical questions arising therefrom). Let me know if you&#8217;d like to meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/2018\/08\/22\/do-bees-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Bees Think?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}