{"id":1543,"date":"2023-12-25T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2023-12-25T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T23:31:34","slug":"highlights-from-other-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/12\/25\/highlights-from-other-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from Other Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness<\/div>\n
Godfrey-Smith, Peter<\/div>\n
Citation (MLA): Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness<\/i>. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Kindle file.<\/div>\n
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2. A History of Animals<\/div>\n
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What is the case, though, is that the senses, the nervous systems, and the behaviors of each animal began to evolve in response to the senses, nervous systems, and behaviors of others. The actions of one animal created opportunities for and demands on others. If a yard-<\/div>\n
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The Cambrian witnessed the appearance of both the compound eyes seen today in insects and camera eyes like our own.<\/div>\n
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these animals.<\/div>\n
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only three of the major animal groups produced some species with complex active bodies (CABs). Those groups are arthropods, chordates (animals like us with a nerve cord down their back), and one group of mollusks, the cephalopods.<\/div>\n
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anomalocarid.<\/div>\n
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What an amazing image: in a long evolutionary process, a motion-controlling brain marches up through your head to meet there some light-sensitive organs, which become eyes.<\/div>\n
3. Mischief and Craft<\/div>\n
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When we try to compare one animal\u2019s brainpower with another\u2019s, we also run into the fact that there is no single scale on which intelligence can be sensibly measured.<\/div>\n
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4. From White Noise to Consciousness<\/div>\n
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panpsychists<\/div>\n
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tactile vision substitution systems (TVSS),<\/div>\n
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The story I am working toward is one of gradual change: as sensing, acting, and remembering became more elaborate, the feel of experience became more complex along the<\/div>\n
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The senses can do their basic work, and actions can be produced, with all this happening \u201cin silence\u201d as far as the organism\u2019s experience is concerned. Then, at some stage in evolution, extra capacities appear that do give rise to subjective experience: the sensory streams are brought together, an \u201cinternal model\u201d of the world arises, and there\u2019s a recognition of time and self.<\/div>\n
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These results do provide support for a view of pain as a basic and widespread form of subjective experience, one present in animals with very different brains from ours.<\/div>\n
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try. The title of this chapter<\/div>\n
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Subjective experience does not arise from the mere running of the system, but from the modulation of its state, from registering things that matter. These need not be external events; they might arise internally. But they are tracked because they matter and require a response. Sentience has some point to it. It\u2019s not just a bathing in living activity.<\/div>\n
5. Making Colors<\/div>\n
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deimatic<\/div>\n
6. Our Minds and Others<\/div>\n
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These sensations<\/div>\n
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The nervous system arose through one internalization of sensing and signaling, and the internalization of language as a tool for thinking was another.<\/div>\n
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Diaries and notes-to-self are embedded in a sender\/ receiver system, just like more standard kinds of communication.<\/div>\n
7. Experience Compressed<\/div>\n
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Cells can generate the right arrangement when a person is conceived, born, and develops from a baby to an adult. Why can\u2019t the arrangement needed to keep you alive be constantly regenerated by the newly arriving cells?<\/div>\n
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The evolutionary theory of aging gives us an explanation for the basic facts of age-related decay. It explains why breakdown starts to appear in old individuals as if on a schedule.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notebook Export Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Godfrey-Smith, Peter Citation (MLA): Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Kindle file. 2. A History of Animals Bookmark – Page 24 \u00b7 Location 307 Highlight(blue) – Page 36 … <\/p>\n

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