Sonja’s Reviews > Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind > Status Update

“…when [animals] evolved multicellular sensing: encouraging parts of their bodies to become maps or reflections of fragments of their surroundings”

“their bodies scrunching into incomprehensibility when they fell”

“when we build a computer we build something that will be distracted as little as possible by the undirected ruminations of its chemistry” I LOVE THIS BOOK

“if bacteria invented transistors what were they doing with them? why did they need to control electricity with electricity?”

“at this scale activity arises spontaneously without being made to happen”

“Somehow, a part of the world’s often mindless activity folded itself into minds”