OTHER MINDS
This visual essay explores the profound nature of consciousness through the eyes, ears, and distributed neural networks of Earth's most remarkable non-human intelligences. By synthesizing the research of leading cognitive biologists and philosophers, the narrative challenges our human-centric definition of intelligence.
#animals
#mind
#consciousness
#SelfAwareness
#neuroscience
#video
#YouTube
2/
From the self-aware recognition of an elephant in a mirror to the "one-plus-eight" distributed mind of an octopus, we glimpse a "World Built from Echoes" and touch—a gradualist reality where consciousness is not a binary switch, but a brilliant, ancient dimmer switch slowly turning up the light of awareness across the tree of life.
#animals
#mind
#consciousness
#SelfAwareness
#neuroscience
#video
#YouTube
3/
Sources:
• Baron-Cohen, Simon et al, Understanding Other Minds, Perspectives from Developmental Social Neuroscience, Oxford University Press, 2013
• Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
• Godfrey-Smith, Peter. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
4/
• de Waal, Frans. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
• Montgomery, Sy. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. Simon & Schuster, 2015.
• Wegner, Daniel M., The Mind Club, Viking, 2016
• Wohlleben, Peter, The Inner Life of Animals, Greystone Books, 2017
earthling