Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith argues that intelligence evolved independently in cephalopods and vertebrates, using the octopus's strange, distributed nervous system to ask what a genuinely alien mind might be like. Read alongside Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea for the full effect.
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