Metazoa – Animal Minds And The Birth Of Consciousness

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ISBN: 9780008321208
Title: Metazoa – Animal Minds And The Birth Of Consciousness
Author: GODFREY-SMITH PETER

From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells become a ‘self’?