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Another description of how animal navigation might work
In a recent address to RIN Dr Kate Jeffery of the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at University College London described a very complete structure for understanding animal navigation. See https://animalnav.org/navigation-networks-in-the-brain/ We at www.animalnav.org have been struggling with exactly these concerns. Prof Jeffery postulates that you need four things to create a navigation system A compass…
Gravity is the basis of bird navigation by Valerii A. Kanevskyi
———————- Editor’s comment This work by Valerii Kanevskyi, (High Technologies Institute, Kiev, Ukraine) is very interesting and it looks as if this work is part of the bigger picture of understanding how animal navigation may work and I think enables us to see a next step forward to generating a universal theory that we need…
Memory is not in your head
Rupert Sheldrake has recently written a book entitled The Science Delusion. In this book he dedicates two chapters to this subject: “Are memories stored as material traces?” and “Are minds confined to brains?” The prevailing idea is that all our memories are stored in our heads. However, there are a lot of problems with this…
Universal Consciousness
On 30th March 2015, Richard Silberstein gave a presentation to the Science Medical Network on “Universal Consciousness”: Mystics of various religious and spiritual traditions have, on occasion, described a mystical realisation as that of the entire universe’s conscious. In this talk, he described some novel parapsychological studies that may shed light on the question of whether consciousness constitutes an…
Stephen Durnford – DNA, learned behaviour and instinct
I am delighted that Stephen Durnford has agreed to provide us with this fascinating exposition of how Instinct might work. We at www.animalnav.org. are always searching to go beyond phrases that do not describe in detail how things work so Durnford by suggesting that instinctive behaviour is passed from generation to generation encoded in DNA (which…
Migration of Banded Stilts from Australia
There was a recent article in the media, including the New Scientist and the Times about the migration of the Banded Stilt, which seems to migrate very fast at short notice. The recent interest has been triggered by work done at Deakin University in Victoria Australia by Reece Pedler. Banded Stilts normally live on the…

