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Though mammals and birds are broadly thought to be the neatest creatures on earth, it has these days grow to be clear {that a} very distant department of the tree of life has additionally sprouted larger intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all of the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been recognized to establish particular person human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for meals, flip off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it {that a} creature with such items advanced via an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our personal? What does it imply that evolution constructed minds not as soon as however at the very least twice? The octopus is the closest we’ll come to assembly an clever alien. What can we study from the encounter?
In Different Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished thinker of science and a talented scuba diver, tells a daring new story of how subjective expertise crept into being–how nature grew to become conscious of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it’s a story that largely happens within the ocean, the place animals first appeared. Monitoring the thoughts’s fitful growth, Godfrey-Smith exhibits how unruly clumps of seaborne cells started dwelling collectively and have become able to sensing, appearing, and signaling. As these primitive organisms grew to become extra entangled with others, they grew extra sophisticated. The primary nervous techniques advanced, in all probability in historical family members of jellyfish; afterward, the cephalopods, which started as inconspicuous mollusks, deserted their shells and rose above the ocean ground, looking for prey and buying the larger intelligence wanted to take action. Taking an unbiased route, mammals and birds later started their very own evolutionary journeys.
However what sort of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the newest scientific analysis and his personal scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the various mysteries that encompass the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, grow to be so good? What’s it prefer to have eight tentacles which might be so filled with neurons that they just about “assume for themselves”? What occurs when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like methods and congregate, as they do in a singular location off the coast of Australia?
By tracing the query of internal life again to its roots and evaluating human beings with our most exceptional animal family members, Godfrey-Smith casts essential new gentle on the octopus thoughts–and on our personal.
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