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Metazoa - Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Metazoa - Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Paperback)
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A
Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of
2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal
consciousness. Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon
confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our
own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted
bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life
than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our
cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom - the Metazoa -
they can teach us about the evolutionary origins of not only our
bodies, but also our minds. In his acclaimed book, Other Minds,
Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus - the closest
thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, he expands his
inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of
experience with the assistance of far-flung species. Godfrey-Smith
shows that the appearance of the first animal body form well over
half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life
upon a new path. He charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary
developments - eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move
through and manipulate the environment - shaped the lives of
animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft
coral, banded shrimp, octopus and fish, then moving onto land and
the world of insects, birds and primates like ourselves, Metazoa
gathers these stories together to bridge the gap between matter and
mind and address one of the most important philosophical questions:
what is the origin of consciousness? Combining vivid animal
encounters with philosophy and biology, Metazoa reveals the
impossibility of separating the evolution of our minds from the
evolution of animals themselves.
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