Add to ORKGThe first part of this commentary attempts to get inside the octopus mind a little further than Mather does, drawing on her description of octopus cognition in many places but diverging in others. The second part outlines other disagreements with her account of the animals, especially in the area of social behavior
Octopuses challenge many common assumptions and received views about the relationship between the ne...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Understanding the Umwelt or being-ness of an octopus is a fascinating problem. Mather’s review provi...
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 is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Science progresses by making contrasts, and the living world is a gold mine of contrasts. Often disc...
Mather’s work has been fundamental in informing scientists of the relatively mysterious behavior and...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Octopuses challenge many common assumptions and received views about the relationship between the ne...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...
Mather consolidates the case for octopus mind and how it may be structured, shifting the starting po...
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex lea...
It is gratifying to see the thorough discussion of whether octopuses have a mind, though perhaps a m...
Mather (2019) provides an excellent overview of the literature on octopus perception, cognition, mem...
Understanding the Umwelt or being-ness of an octopus is a fascinating problem. Mather’s review provi...
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 is convincing about octopuses having ‘a controlling mind, motivated to gather information,’ b...
Science progresses by making contrasts, and the living world is a gold mine of contrasts. Often disc...
Mather’s work has been fundamental in informing scientists of the relatively mysterious behavior and...
It is difficult to imagine what an animal as different from us as the octopus ‘thinks’, but we can m...
Mather (2019) presents convincing evidence that octopuses have minds, but in the first 85% of the ta...
Octopuses challenge many common assumptions and received views about the relationship between the ne...
Mather (2019) has brought together the current empirical research in support of the claim that o...
Mather’s target article aligns with a common tendency of granting the octopus a mind or consciousnes...