Add to ORKGMather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that octopuses possess minds; and the weight of the evidence does appear to support octopus sentience. Being sentient means an organism has welfare concerns, a subjective experience of life that can go well or poorly. Protecting welfare requires knowing what conditions will have a positive or negative impact. Understanding what is in the mind of an octopus will give us valuable insight into what is good for an octopus
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Our understanding of the evolution and ontogeny of the octopus and its behavioral repertoire in its ...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
The first question to ask is whether octopuses are sentient, so that, if so, they can be protected. ...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Despite the reputation of octopuses as intelligent animals, their cognitive abilities seem to be mos...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Our understanding of the evolution and ontogeny of the octopus and its behavioral repertoire in its ...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
The first question to ask is whether octopuses are sentient, so that, if so, they can be protected. ...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Despite the reputation of octopuses as intelligent animals, their cognitive abilities seem to be mos...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Our understanding of the evolution and ontogeny of the octopus and its behavioral repertoire in its ...