Питер Годфри-Смит — библиография

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
What if intelligent life on earth not only evolved on land, but also in the sea?
Other Minds is a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development over millennia, Other Minds explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods. What kind of intelligence do they possess? And how did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart?
Heralded as the ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ when Other Minds first published, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the underwater world and the concept of sentience to trace the question of inner life back to its roots. By comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Other Minds casts crucial new light on the octopus mind – and on our own.

The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness.
Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom - the Metazoa - they can teach us about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.
In his acclaimed book, Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus - the closest thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, he expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of experience with the assistance of far-flung species. Godfrey-Smith shows that the appearance of the first animal body form well over half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life upon a new path. He charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary developments - eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move through and manipulate the environment - shaped the lives of animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft coral, banded shrimp, octopus and fish, then moving onto land and the world of insects, birds and primates like ourselves, Metazoa gathers these stories together to bridge the gap between matter and mind and address one of the most important philosophical questions: what is the origin of consciousness?
Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophy and biology, Metazoa reveals the impossibility of separating the evolution of our minds from the evolution of animals themselves.

Tras el ?xito internacional de Otras mentes, el fil?sofo Peter Godfrey Smith vuelve con un nuevo y apasionante ensayo en el que le sigue la pista a la evoluci?n de las formas de vida para formular una teor?a de la conciencia. ** Book of the Year seg?n el Times y el Sunday Times ** Book of the Month seg?n la BBC Science Focus ** En Metazoos, el fil?sofo Peter Godfrey-Smith profundiza en la investigaci?n que ya iniciara en su anterior libro, el exitoso Otras mentes. Si en aquella ocasi?n era la sorprendente inteligencia de los pulpos lo que serv?a como punto de partida para reflexionar sobre la consciencia, ahora el horizonte se ampl?a para incluir a todo el reino animal. Tomando como hilo conductor el progreso de la capacidad de experimentar a largo de la evoluci?n, Godfrey-Smith muestra c?mo la aparici?n del primer cuerpo animal, hace unos 500 millones de a?os, fue una innovaci?n revolucionaria que abri? nuevos caminos al desarrollo de la vida. Siguiendo el rastro evolutivo de las esponjas marinas, el coral, los calamares estriados, pulpos y los peces, y de all? a la tierra firme hogar de insectos, p?jaros y primates como nosotros, Metazoos re?ne todas esas historias para intentar cerrar la aparentemente insalvable distancia que separa a la materia de la mente, y dar respuesta a una pregunta filos?fica esencial: ?cu?l es el origen de la consciencia? Con una narraci?n fascinante en la que se alternan los animales m?s curiosos con reflexiones filos?ficas y los m?s recientes descubrimientos en biolog?a, Metazoos demuestra que incluso en nuestro mundo ultra-tecnologizado no es posible entender la conciencia sin entender el funcionamiento de los nervios, m?sculos y cuerpos materiales que la albergan. El resultado de esa mezcla es una historia tan sorprendente como la vida misma.

What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.Tracking the mind’s fitful development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so – a journey completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would later take.But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ‘think for themselves’? By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind – and on our own.