{"id":1158,"date":"2023-02-01T00:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2023-02-01T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:42:44","slug":"other-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/other-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/Other-Minds-Octopus-Evolution-Intelligent\/dp\/0008226296\/\">book<\/a> recommended by a good friend. He had watched some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmaffinity.com\/es\/film677436.html\">documentaries<\/a> about octopus and was amazing. So I was curious about it and gave it a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is not just about octopus and cuttlefish but about intelligence based on the evolution of our nervous systems. It seems the octupus developed their nervous system in a different way from mammals. And even between cephalopods seems to have evolved in more than one way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another things I was quite surprised is the life span of the octopus is around 2 years! There is a part of the book quite interesting about ageing. Why are there organism like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sequoiadendron_giganteum\">sequoias<\/a> that can live over 3000 years and then octopus with a very advance nervous systems only last 2? I need to re-read it again. As per my understanding this is related to the our evolution, we reap the benefits quickly but there is always drawbacks that turn up later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were parts were I didnt engage enough but I think it was worth it just for the two points above.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book recommended by a good friend. He had watched some documentaries about octopus and was amazing. So I was curious about it and gave it a go. The book is not just about octopus and cuttlefish but about intelligence based on the evolution of our nervous systems. It seems the octupus developed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/other-minds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Other Minds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}