Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Autor Peter Godfrey-Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2017
What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilledscuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story thatlargely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.
Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the firstevolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredibleevolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs whowould later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey andacquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so – a journey completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would later take.
But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? How did the octopus, a solitarycreature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles thatare so packed with neurons that they virtually ‘think for themselves’? By tracing thequestion of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our mostremarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind –and on our own.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0008226318
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 20 b/w illus, (8-page colour plate section)
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers