Other minds the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widel...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Meetings across the tree of life : Two meetings and a departure ; Outlines
- A history of animals : Beginnings ; Living together ; Neurons and nervous systems ; The garden ; Senses ; The fork
- Mischief and craft : In a sponge garden ; Evolution of the cephalopods ; Puzzles of octopus intelligence ; Visiting Octopolis ; Nervous evolution ; Body and control ; Convergence and divergence
- From white noise to consciousness : What it's like ; Evolution of experience ; Latecomer versus transformation ; The case of the octopus
- Making colors : The giant cuttlefish ; Making colors ; Seeing colors ; Being seen ; Baboon and squid ; Symphony
- Our minds and others : From Hume to Vygotsky ; Word made flesh ; Conscious experience ; Full circle
- Experience compressed : Decline ; Life and death ; A swarm of motorcycles ; Long and short lives ; Ghosts
- Octopolis : An armful of octopuses ; Origins of Octopolis ; Parallel lines ; The oceans.
