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A review by saint_eleanor
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith
challenging
informative
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
sheesh
i definitely have more questions than answers and am only starting to grasp how little we actually know about our brains, but this book was so insightful to the ways in which early cell development has contributed to consciousness and what that actually means.
I also was super pleased that the author mentioned Blindsight as that's one of my favorite topics.
I learned so much that I didn't know, like about EEG fields and ephaptic coupling, and that some of the 'mind' of an octopus is in their tentacles!
this book was also really easy to understand and quite beautiful.
i definitely have more questions than answers and am only starting to grasp how little we actually know about our brains, but this book was so insightful to the ways in which early cell development has contributed to consciousness and what that actually means.
I also was super pleased that the author mentioned Blindsight as that's one of my favorite topics.
I learned so much that I didn't know, like about EEG fields and ephaptic coupling, and that some of the 'mind' of an octopus is in their tentacles!
this book was also really easy to understand and quite beautiful.