the ones we usually think of as “smart”—the ones with large brains, who are complex and flexible in their behavior.
“What was the point of knowing anything, of learning how to think, that favorite phrase of my American teachers, if all it did was burnish my contempt for the mentally negligible project managers and associate division directors all around me? I should have majored in Microsoft Excel.”
― All This Could Be Different
― All This Could Be Different
“If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over.”
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
― Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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