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Peter Godfrey-Smith: Other Minds (2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose …

Review of 'Other Minds' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Really great read. I didn't know much about the Cephalopods before reading this and thoroughly enjoyed it. We often wonder what it would be like to meet an alien intelligence but the Octopus and its relatives are the closest we have to an alien intelligence on Earth and how mysterious they are!

The other side of the book is about the general nature of consciousness which is also of great interest to me.