Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Paperback

Peter Godfrey-Smith dives with octopuses to ask what consciousness looks like from eight arms away. A philosopher and a diver asking the same question.

The octopus is the most alien intelligence we can observe. It has nine brains, eyes that work differently from ours, and no social learning tradition. Godfrey-Smith uses this radical difference to rethink what consciousness actually requires. If an octopus is conscious (and he believes it is), then consciousness is not about being like us.

Philosophers, biologists, and animal behavior researchers read this. So do people who just want to understand how something so foreign can be so intelligent. It's written for thoughtful readers, not specialists, but it doesn't simplify the hard parts.

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- Paperback
- Philosophy, consciousness, marine biology, comparative cognition