Other Minds : The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (Record no. 296447)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780008226312
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 612.8 SMI-O
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Personal name Peter Godfrey-Smith
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Other Minds : The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harper Collins / William Collins
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 255 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Formatted contents note Meetings across the tree of life : Two meetings and a departure ; Outlines -- A history of animals : Beginnings ; Living together ; Neurons and nervous systems ; The garden ; Senses ; The fork -- Mischief and craft : In a sponge garden ; Evolution of the cephalopods ; Puzzles of octopus intelligence ; Visiting Octopolis ; Nervous evolution ; Body and control ; Convergence and divergence -- From white noise to consciousness : What it's like ; Evolution of experience ; Latecomer versus transformation ; The case of the octopus -- Making colors : The giant cuttlefish ; Making colors ; Seeing colors ; Being seen ; Baboon and squid ; Symphony -- Our minds and others : From Hume to Vygotsky ; Word made flesh ; Conscious experience ; Full circle -- Experience compressed : Decline ; Life and death ; A swarm of motorcycles ; Long and short lives ; Ghosts -- Octopolis : An armful of octopuses ; Origins of Octopolis ; Parallel lines ; The oceans.
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Summary, etc. `Brilliant' Guardian `Fascinating and often delightful' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 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 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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Topical term or geographic name entry element Nervous system -- Evolution. Consciousness. Cephalopoda -- Behavior.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 18/09/2017 2 612.8 SMI-O DCB3164 10/03/2023 18/01/2022 18/09/2017 Book