Peter Godfrey-Smith’s brilliant book entirely overturns those preconceptions. Perhaps that’s why we look on the octopus as an eldritch other, with its more-than-the usual complement of limbs, bulbous eyes, seeking suckers and keratinous beaks voraciously devouring anything in its slippery path. OL17894924W Page_number_confidence 87.68 Pages 286 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210417095920 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 450 Scandate 20210407034121 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780374537197 Tts_version 4.‘Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea.” Coleridge’s lines evoke those Precambrian depths where sensate life first stirred, and which remain lodged atavistically in our collective imaginations. Includes bibliographical references and indexĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:12:22 Boxid IA40089220 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

By tracing the problem of consciousness back to its roots and comparing the human brain to its most alien and perhaps most remarkable animal relative, Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds sheds new light on one of our most abiding mysteries.' summary What does it mean that intelligence on earth has evolved not once but twice? And that the mind of the octopus is nonetheless so different from our own? Combining science and philosophy with firsthand accounts of his cephalopod encounters, Godfrey-Smith shows how primitive organisms bobbing in the ocean began sending signals to each other and how these early forms of communication gave rise to the advanced nervous systems that permit cephalopods to change colors and human beings to speak. New research shows that these marvelous creatures display remarkable gifts. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth.

In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. 'Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science.

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