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Other Minds

- The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Af: Peter Godfrey-Smith Engelsk Paperback

Other Minds

- The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Af: Peter Godfrey-Smith Engelsk Paperback
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BBC R4 Book of the Week‘Brilliant’ Guardian‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat 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 skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring 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 solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ‘think for themselves’? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind – and on our own.
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BBC R4 Book of the Week‘Brilliant’ Guardian‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat 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 skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring 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 solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ‘think for themselves’? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind – and on our own.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780008226299
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0008226296
Kategori: Saltvandsbiologi
Udg. Dato: 8 mar 2018
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 8 mar 2018
Forfatter(e): Peter Godfrey-Smith
Forfatter(e) Peter Godfrey-Smith

Kategori Saltvandsbiologi

ISBN-13 9780008226299

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 198mm

Højde 128mm

Udg. Dato 8 mar 2018

Oplagsdato 8 mar 2018

Forlag HarperCollins Publishers