RE: https://biologists.social/@jekely/115926352021625708

#Tooluse in #bovids so far was underestimated until a recent #scientific #study highlighted Austrian #cow #Veronika and her #flexible #purposeful self-#scrarching tool handling. Indicating that further studies might show similar potentials also in other #Bovidae taxa.
The authors A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026) published their findings in #CurrentBiology.
© This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2026

Reference:

A. J. Osuna-Mascaró & Alice M.I. Auersperg (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059

You Don’t Have to Love Your #Job to Live a #Purposeful Life

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-regret-free-life/202505/you-dont-have-to-love-your-job-to-live-a-purposeful-life

#purpose #meaningful #work

#purposeful #criticalthinking
#opportunity #education

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Today's poem:

Instructions Before Stuttering
- by JJJJJerome Ellis

Tread where the name has prepared
A full name full of desire
Clay like plenty
Love is sensitive
In the space of crying
The name goes ahead
To prepare you
Grasp the vessel
With both hands and
Walk slow
A road of red clover
Opens—

#poetry #JeromeEllis #speech #stutter #readiness #calm #purposeful #dignity #power #self

Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly

- Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

#dune #purposeful

“Death is a time of deliberate conclusion.”

— Jamie Kreiner

#quotes #LiveWell #purposeful #life #death

#Anticipation IS #Computation.

The #Model used by a computing #System to anticipate the #State of affairs in its #Environment depends heavily upon the #Knowledge state of the anticipatory system.

Knowledge is the #Integral result of the system’s #History of all previous computations. The same system will anticipate different outcomes depending on its current knowledge state

An anticipatory system does not need to be a #purposeful system.

#Purpose and Anticipation are only necessary for #Control.

There is no anticipation in #Evolution.

Apart from that, a very interesting article:

https://www.academia.edu/5729941/Anticipation_and_dynamics_Rosens_anticipation_in_the_perspective_of_time?email_work_card=view-paper