Contact with Cephalopods

“If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is . . . because evolution built minds twice over,” Godfrey-Smith writes. “This is probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.” When seeking other minds, we find that “the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/books/review/other-minds-peter-godfrey-smith.html