作者：PeterGodfrey-Smith
出版社：Farrar,StrausandGiroux
副标题：TheOctopus,theSea,andtheDeepOriginsofConsciousness
出版年：2016-12-6
页数：272
定价：USD27.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780374227760
内容简介
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Although mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to keep tabs on individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once, but at least 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 skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey, and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journey.
But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. 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”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate together, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia? And how does the cephalopod mind differ from the mammal mind, which took its own path—a path that eventually gave rise to an especially rich form of consciousness?
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.
作者简介
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Peter Godfrey-Smith is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of four books, including Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science and Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award for an outstanding work on the philosophy of science. His underwater videos of octopuses have been featured in National Geographic and New Scientist, and he has discussed them on National Public Radio and many cable TV channels.
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书店的推荐是手写的挪威语，结账时店员小姐姐热心告诉我，意思是看完之后你还会去吃章鱼吗🐙，我看完了回答一下，会。哈哈哈哈…
the evolutionary journey of the subjective experience 章鱼真的是神奇一般的动物啊
非常accessible and philosophical的科普读物。与其说是在讨论头足纲动物的体验/感知/意识，不如说又是一次反身性训练：为什么生物进化出对称性，为什么生物会有寿命，为什么同类之间需要交流，是语言助推了智慧与知识的积累，还是相反的过程？一刻不停的内心话语又代表了什么样的感知？假如我的所有肢体，我的每一个指尖都能看到颜色、尝到味道，那又是什么样的体验？（有朋友问我是否看了这本书后…
作者好痴迷efference copy 但感觉这是很原始的神经功能 章鱼里应该是有的
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