Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the target article, the evidence does not come through very clearly because it is hidden by other information and by problems with the paper’s organization. I propose ways to build a tighter argument in the author’s Response to the Commentaries
Several commentators on Mather’s target article discuss the challenges of finding adequate cognitive...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
Mather is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Even if its intelligent behaviors are the product of decentralized control systems, Mather argues th...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
The first part of this commentary attempts to get inside the octopus mind a little further than Ma...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Several commentators on Mather’s target article discuss the challenges of finding adequate cognitive...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Mather’s (2019) provocative claim that octopuses have a mind hinges on the inference that their stri...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
Mather is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Mather argues convincingly for the existence of minds in octopuses based largely on laboratory exper...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Even if its intelligent behaviors are the product of decentralized control systems, Mather argues th...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
The first part of this commentary attempts to get inside the octopus mind a little further than Ma...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Several commentators on Mather’s target article discuss the challenges of finding adequate cognitive...
Scientific discussions about the ‘mind’ of an octopus are empirically vacuous and should be confined...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...