Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith explores sentience and cognition through the study of intelligent beings, specifically focusing on the independent development of intelligence in vertebrates and cephalopods like octopuses. He discusses what can be learned about thinking by studying animals…
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- sentience
- animal cognition
- octopus intelligence
- philosophy of mind
- vertebrate evolution
- cephalopod intelligence