Other Minds
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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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.
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It draws on The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us and Vesper Flights.
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Godfrey-Smith draws on Darwin tracing consciousness evolution.
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Extends Godfrey-Smith's exploration of animal consciousness beyond octopuses to the entire sensory world of diverse animal species
Shares Godfrey-Smith's fascination with how animal minds differ from our own, exploring avian and insect consciousness through literary observation
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