#peter godfrey-smith

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Spines of Interest: Niche Nonfiction Edition.

#books #book photography #nonfiction #tbr #other minds #peter godfrey-smith #owls of the eastern ice #jonathan c slaght #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #a burglar's guide to the city #geoff manaugh #listen i know i just posted these but i took an extra picture and i don't dislike it so onto the blog it goes XD #forreal i feel like the only thing not accounted for in my nonfictional interests here is knitting lolol

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Simplicity is often attractive, but simple answers are often false.

from Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith 

#theory #reality #theory and reality #peter godfrey-smith #philosophy #philosophy of science #science #theory choice #empiricism #naturalism #scientific realism #simplicity #simple answers #false #false answers #falsity #falsehood #falsification

[thesparhawke]

"You can see yourself from the outside in an episodic memory. The new thinking about episodic memory [...] included ideas about what purpose this kind of memory serves. [...] They suggested that the important and useful thing we do with mental time travel is simulate possible situations in order to aid planning. These situations need never have happened -- they are mere possibilities, things that might come about tomorrow. Episodic memory, which looks backward, is a byproduct of this forward thinking ability. Why should we believe this? One reason is that episodic memory is so unreliable. If its role was to be a mere record, we might expect something more accurate. The combo of unreliability and vividness seen in episodic memory is apart of what suggests that it is a byproduct of a skill in exploring possible futures. A forward-looking faculty brings with it an ability to cook up pasts as well."

-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa

#peter godfrey-smith #metazoa #quote #lit #text #science #episodic memory #memory

[ozu-teapot]

The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | 1947

#Peter Godfrey #The Two Mrs. Carrolls #1947 #Humphrey Bogart #Barbara Stanwyck #Alexis Smith #Ann Carter

[petitepinard]

#reading #other minds #peter godfrey smith

[kleptomelancholic]

Crying and throwing up because trilobites are extinct forrever

#other minds by peter godfrey smith #highly recommend

[pacificgasandelectric]

so my bedside table book stack situation might be getting Slightly out of hand.

#mine #not pictured: children of húrin (also by tolkien); hope never dies (an obama-biden murder mystery); a tale of two cities by dickens; #other minds by peter godfrey-smith; life on mars by tracy k smith; a fortune for your disaster by hanif abdurraqib #i have a Lot of books that are in desperate need a permanent home in my apartment instead of just wherever there’s an open flat space 😔

[nateconnolly]

You probably know that humans can experience “phantom limbs,” but did you know that the limbs of an octopus can have a “phantom body”? If you cut off an octopus’ tentacle, it will try to feed a mouth that is no longer there. A severed octopus tentacle also curls up when it’s exposed to negative stimuli like acid. Essentially, if an octopus dies and its tentacle is cut off, the tentacle can outlive the original animal by a whole hour. 

Octopi have as many as 130 million neurons, but the vast majority are located in their limbs, not their brains. Their mind is “distributed.” That is fundamentally unlike the human mind. We have muscle memory, but our arms can’t move completely independently of our brains.

What does this mean for octopus consciousness? Well… we don’t know. There’s no way to observe or deduce via experiment what it’s like to be a particular animal. We can see how they behave, but we won’t ever see the world through their eyes. Science can study what is outside, but not what’s inside. So, animal consciousness isn’t really the domain of science. 

As is always the case, philosophers have attempted to do what scientists cannot. The philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has a really great way of explaining what’s at stake: “Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us.”  There’s a decent chance you’ve seen a popular Tumblr post about Umwelt Theory—the idea that animals have access to senses that we do not. Smells too refined for our noses, pitches too high for our ears, colors outside the range of our eyes. But the inner worlds of animals might be even stranger than that. The postmortem movement of octopus limbs suggests that some animal minds might be fundamentally different from ours. Simply put, it’s not just that some animals have access to sensations that we will never feel. They might have access to types of thoughts that we will never be able to think.

#octopus #philosophy of mind #philosophy #marine biology #biology #science #umwelt theory

[davedyecom]

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[alexpeteronoja]

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[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Replenishing the Nonfiction Stack; or, We're Calling the Book Buying Ban a Wash, Officially.

I am not, apparently, immune to coupons for niche nonfiction that's directly up my alley (octopus minds and RUSSIAN OWLS, hello??? Thanks, bookshop!).

I thought perhaps the BURGLAR'S GUIDE would also be covered under said coupon, since it was publisher-specific (alas: it was Not, but we might as well bundle for shipping purposes). And then while I was shopping IRL for gifties I found a copy of ROOM, which has been on my list for...ever? So! Hopefully these will hold me over on the nonfiction front for a minute!

#books #book photography #nonfiction #tbr #a burglar's guide to the city #geoff manaugh #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #other minds #peter godfrey-smith #owls of the eastern ice #jonathan c. slaght #it was an FSG/Picador coupon that bookshop sent me lol #and i knew burglar's guide was also FSG but apparently the coupon was only for Specific Books on their List #(owls and minds) #so. those were impulse buys. #burglar's lowkey was too tbh #ROOM was 'if i cannot literally buy myself a room of my own right now i will purchase this book about it' #(the housing market will be the death of me i stg) #i saw a snippet from burglar's on this hellsite and thought 'ah architecture and thievery YES please' #seriously all my niche interests right here lolol #and yeah okay i really did think i was going to moderate a book ban (read 5 buy 1) #but i've been failing at that since. january. and i will not catch up at this stage :( #so we'll just call that dead to the world and pretend it didn't ever exist :) #ANYWAY PLEASE BEHOLD MY PRETTY BOOKS!!! #i had a spine shot but i didn't love what it did to the photoset composition lol #might as well post that separately here i goooo

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Science... is often a matter of challenging rather than following the lessons of observation.

from Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith 

#theory #reality #theory and reality #philosophy #philosophy of science #science #peter godfrey-smith #feyerabend #framework #frameworks #lakatos #research programs #research traditions #laudan #paul feyerabend #anything goes #philosophical #philosophical argument #against method #theory choice #challenging #following #lessons #learn #learning #lessons of observation #observation

[thesparhawke]

"Wild dolphins sometimes have a strikingly close engagement with people. A few years ago I saw a dolphin who regularly visits Cabbage Tree Bay, the marine reserve near Sydney [...]. This dolphin, well-known along those shores, is a female [...]. She lived on her own, after losing her pod some time ago, and does not seem too concerned about her unusual life. That day in the water, a lot of swimmers hung around, many just to see the dolphin. We kept a distance, but she would zoom in. She took a particular liking to a young man with red hair. When he dived down, she would come rocketing in and bring her face very close to his, repeatedly, so close that it looked like she was going to kiss him. I don't know why she singled him out for this attention. Some people seem to have a way of moving through the water -- perhaps a calmness, but it seems more distinctive than this -- that appeals to particular animals. I've seen this with Matt Laurence [...]. Something about him makes octopuses want to play, and they often end up crawling all over him. It was similar with the red-haired man and the lone dolphin."

-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa

#peter godfrey-smith #metazoa #science #dolphins #quote #text #octopus

[ozu-teapot]

The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Peter Godfrey | 1947

#Peter Godfrey #The Two Mrs. Carrolls #1947 #Humphrey Bogart #Barbara Stanwyck #Alexis Smith

[sarahmackattack]

Hi, your blog is gorgeous! I'm enthusiast in sepiida and sepiolida, which books/publications about their general morphology and behaviour you may recommend? For those, who have knowledge in bio approximately equal to 1-2 year student? Any other cephalopod group would be also nice, Thanks!! 🦑

Here's my suggested reading list

1. Cephalopod Behaviour by Hanlon and Messenger This is the best book out there on cephalopods, in my opinion. It's pretty dense and not a beach read by any means, but it's a cephalopod bible. 

2. Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish by Hanlon, Vecchione, and Allcock Lots of beautiful pictures, and an overview at the beginning written in simple terms

3. Monarchs of the sea by Danna Staaf A popular science book about cephalopod evolution. Entertaining and wonderful!!

4. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith  A lovely book about animal intelligence, paying special attention to the octopus

#To read #reading list

[acti-veg]

“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights by squirting jets of water at the bulbs when no one is watching, and short-circuiting the power supply. At the University of Otago in New Zealand, this became so expensive that the octopuses had to be released back into the wild.”

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds

#quotes #octopuses #animal intelligence