By comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Other Minds casts crucial new light on the octopus mind - and on our own. Heralded as the 'scuba-diving philosopher' when Other Minds first published, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the underwater world and the concept of sentience to trace the question of inner life back to its roots. What kind of intelligence do they possess? And how did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? Other Minds: The Octopus And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. 9) says Godfrey-Smith, going as far as to suggest that ‘The octopus lives outside the usual body/brain divide’ (p. Tracking the mind's fitful development over millennia, Other Minds explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods. Other Minds is a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself - a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. What if intelligent life on earth not only evolved on land, but also in the sea?
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