Other Minds
The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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“@MartinVetterli @EPFL_en @EPFL @epflSV @epflSB @ICepfl @epflENAC @epflcdm @EPFLcdh @agepoly @DariusRochebin The "Other Minds" book is great. | I reviewed @pgodfreysmith’s excellent book Metazoa for @StandpointMag both books show the importance of close imaginative observation and description for understanding minds | Three of my favorite books in 2017”
Source →“@MartinVetterli @EPFL_en @EPFL @epflSV @epflSB @ICepfl @epflENAC @epflcdm @EPFLcdh @agepoly @DariusRochebin The "Other Minds" book is great. | I reviewed @pgodfreysmith’s excellent book Metazoa for @StandpointMag both books show the importance of close imaginative observation and description for understanding minds | Three of my favorite books in 2017”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Frank Chimero and Michael Mauboussin
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Philosophy, Science, and Social Sciences.
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 ...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Philosophy, Science, and Social Sciences.
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Michael Mauboussin
“@MartinVetterli @EPFL_en @EPFL @epflSV @epflSB @ICepfl @epflENAC @epflcdm @EPFLcdh @agepoly @DariusRochebin The "Other Minds" book is great. | I reviewed @pgodfreysmith’s excellent book Metazoa for @StandpointMag both books show the importance of close imaginative observation and description for understanding minds | Three of my favorite books in 2017”
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