Other Minds: Why Evolution Built Consciousness More Than Once

Crisis in Perception · May 28, 2026 · 35m

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

This episode explores Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith as a systems-level analysis of embodied intelligence and evolutionary cognition.

The discussion examines:

· distributed nervous systems

· evolutionary feedback loops

· ecological selection pressures

· hidden system dynamics

· structural tradeoffs between flexibility and control

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