Philosopher of science and author
Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher of science at the University of Sydney and the author of Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. His work explores the evolution of intelligence by examining cephalopods as perhaps the closest thing to meeting an intelligent alien.
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Godfrey-Smith explores octopus cognition to ask what consciousness looks like when it evolves along a completely different path. Minds can arise from radically different architectures.
The books Peter Godfrey-Smith references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Charles Darwin
Darwin lays out the evidence that species evolve through natural selection, where small heritable variations accumulate over generations. The theory unified biology and changed how we understand life.
Who Peter draws from, and who draws from Peter — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.