On Being an Octopus (2013)

In this interpretation, to ask what it’s like to be a bat or an octopus is to ask for a description, given from a third-person point of view, that encapsulates the animal’s experience itself. Its many descendants include, on one branch, humans and the other animals with backbones (dolphins, bats, birds), and on another branch, a huge range of invertebrate animals, including the octopus. Would being an octopus be so different from being a bat, or any other animal with fine-tuned senses and a complex nervous system?

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