The octopus's mind

I started reading the book "Octopus Thinking". The original name of this book is Other Minds: Octopus, Ocean and Deep Origin of Consciousness.

Yesterday, I made an appointment with a friend, had dinner with a friend, read a book and did my homework. This situation makes me feel very quiet for a moment. My friend saw the book I read, which provided me with a good message-in addition to publishing the book, the author seems to have made a documentary on the same subject, and chatting with friends about the documentary is second only to chatting with books.

This book is about the consciousness of octopus. Almost from the first second of opening the book, the author "won" the reader with the story of his first encounter with Zhangyu. A soft marine creature that looks curious and eager to explore can easily make people feel soft. No wonder there were so many horror stories about octopus in the past. It seems that they really have "amazing" ability.

I just read the third chapter, and my favorite chapter is "Naughty and scheming". The example of octopus escaping in the laboratory reminds me of the octopus Hank in Finding Nemo 2: Looking for Dolly. "The locked octopus sometimes tries to escape. When it escapes, it can always choose accurately when the experimenter doesn't notice them." Octopus hates light, so it will short-circuit the light like a lamp spraying water; They will definitely throw the food they don't like into the sewer in front of the researchers; They may cover the nervous system, not just the brain.

So, I can't help wondering: does octopus really have thoughts? Even can it really predict or predict events?

I find myself more and more superstitious, perhaps as I get older, I feel more and more uncertain and inexplicable about the world. The author says that his book is a philosophy book, and I appreciate the definition on the cover of this book-philosophy of science. I have heard many big V's describing the incompatibility between science and art, and between science and philosophy. But I never felt that there was a gap between them. Aren't science and philosophy used to explain the world we see? Together with art, it is also a way to reflect human understanding of the world.

Tonight, Brother Bao and Ronan will talk about why they want to watch the realism genre. Brother Bao said that watching too many simple things will affect your attitude towards life. Philosophy books can help people get out of the status quo, while books with realistic themes are more hierarchical in expressing human nature. I partially answered my previous "reading bottleneck" question, but I still need to give myself some courage.