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The Strange World of Animal Consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Peter Godfrey-Smith is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, and author of "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness".

Prof. Godfrey-Smith’s work is particularly interested in cephalopods, but we speak about both consciousness and other animals more broadly, in a fascinating conversation about the nature of the nonhuman mind.

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