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    Meeting of minds

    Dec 06, 2020 2 minutes
    by MICHELLE LANGSTONE

    Following his acclaimed study of octopus intelligence in 2016’s Other Minds, Sydneybased professor of science and philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith brings us Metazoa, an exploration of consciousness in the animal mind from a broader perspective.

    From glass sponges half a billion years ago to shrimp, cephalopods and fish, then eventually

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