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Other Minds The Octopus The Sea And The Deep Origins Of Consciousness Peter Godfrey Smith

Name: Other Minds The Octopus The Sea And The Deep Origins Of Consciousness Peter Godfrey Smith
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Other Minds The Octopus The Sea And The Deep Origins Of Consciousness Peter Godfrey Smith instant download after payment.

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

File Extension: PDF

File size: 4.08 MB

Pages: 152

Author: Peter Godfrey Smith

ISBN: 9780374227760, 0374227764

Language: English

Year: 2016

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Other Minds The Octopus The Sea And The Deep Origins Of Consciousness Peter Godfrey Smith by Peter Godfrey Smith 9780374227760, 0374227764 instant download after payment.

In Other Minds,
Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a
skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience
crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith
stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals
first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith
shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and
became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive
organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated.
The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of
jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous
mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor,
searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do
so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own
evolutionary journeys.
But what kind of intelligence do
cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his
own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries
that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with
little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight
tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for
themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like
ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of
Australia?
By tracing the question of inner life back to its
roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal
relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind—and
on our own.