Australian philosopher of biology at the University of Sydney who studies the evolution of mind and consciousness — most notably in octopuses and other cephalopods — whose Other Minds argues that cephalopod intelligence evolved entirely independently of vertebrate intelligence.
Establishes that octopus intelligence is an independent evolutionary solution to the problem of cognition — not inherited from a common ancestor with vertebrate intelligence — providing the strongest empirical evidence that complex consciousness can evolve along radically different biological pathways.
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