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Mo Costandi
Personal blog · neurophilosophy.wordpress.comscience
Mo Costandi's personal blog at neurophilosophy.wordpress.com covers science. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mo Costandi's posts on the economic lives of animals, about animal decision-making and economic behaviour. The one comment disputes the post's use of Keynes's 'animal spirits' as a reference to non-human animals.
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What Hacker News says?
> Even John Maynard Keynes, the father of modern economics, attributed our irrational choices to “animal spirits.” Yeah, there's an equivocation in this reference. The "animal" in "animal spirits" doesn't refer to non-human lifeforms, rather it means "of or relating to a soul". The expression itself is an obsolete medical term which designated what people from late antiquity to the modern period thought was the caus…
Comment linking /2006/11/16/exorcising-animal-spirits-the-discovery-of-nerve-function/
on “The Economic Lives of Animals”Submitted The quantum mechanics of smell (2006) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The discovery of the neuron (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion