Thursday, August 31, 2017
Octopus embodiment and intelligence
"Even asking how much the body contributes to intelligent action presupposes a division between brain and body that seems not to apply to the octopus. The octopus’s body is pervaded by nervousness: it is not a thing controlled by the animal’s thinking part, but itself a thinking thing". Full book review at London Review of Books. Thank you to Thiago Carvalho for sharing.
Labels: #Embodiment, #Intelligence, #Octopus
