Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith

272 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science reflective slow-paced

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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 scienc...

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