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Review of Other Minds: the octopus, the sea and the deep origins of consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2016

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  1. There is an even more alien form of life that has a nervous system, nowhere near as intelligent as an octopus, that is now recognized as profoundly different (at the level of neuromodulators and proteins and genes) from all other animals: the lowly ctenophores, a distant relative of jellyfish with which it is often confused. See https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0b9c554b15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0b9c554b15-69421497.

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Dennett, D. Review of Other Minds: the octopus, the sea and the deep origins of consciousness. Biol Philos 34, 2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-018-9650-2

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