Other Minds
The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human ...
Publish Date
2017
October 16
Goodreads rating
3.86
ISBN
9780374537197
Recommendations
3
Recommendations
Mar 22, 2020
@MartinVetterli @EPFL_en @EPFL @epflSV @epflSB @ICepfl @epflENAC @epflcdm @EPFLcdh @agepoly @DariusRochebin The "Other Minds" book is great. – sourceMay 08, 2021
I reviewed @pgodfreysmith’s excellent book Metazoa for @StandpointMag - both books show the importance of close imaginative observation and description for understanding minds – source