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Metazoa
- Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
- Narrado por: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley.
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom — the Metazoa— they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.
In his acclaimed 2016 book, Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus — the closest thing to an intelligent alien on Earth. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution of subjective experience with the assistance of far-flung species. As he delves into what it feels like to perceive and interact with the world as other life-forms do, Godfrey-Smith shows that the appearance of the animal body well over half a billion years ago was a profound innovation that set life upon a new path. In accessible, riveting prose, he charts the ways that subsequent evolutionary developments — eyes that track, for example, and bodies that move through and manipulate the environment — shaped the subjective lives of animals. Following the evolutionary paths of a glass sponge, soft coral, banded shrimp, octopus, and fish, then moving onto land and the world of insects, birds, and primates like ourselves, Metazoa gathers their stories together in a way that bridges the gap between mind and matter, addressing one of the most vexing philosophical problems: that of consciousness.
Combining vivid animal encounters with philosophical reflections and the latest news from biology, Metazoa reveals that even in our high-tech, AI-driven times, there is no understanding our minds without understanding nerves, muscles, and active bodies. The story that results is as rich and vibrant as life itself.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you've never heard of. Along with Darwin and Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe. Benjamin Ehrlich's The Brain in Search of Itself is the first major biography in English of this figure, whose scientific odyssey mirrored the rocky journey of his beloved homeland of Spain.
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Remarkable Journey
- De Migdalia Salazar en 07-25-23
De: Benjamin Ehrlich
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The Consciousness Instinct
- Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
- De: Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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How do neurons turn into minds? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness.
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- De PMonaco en 01-19-19
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.
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What is Life?
- De Shane S Shull en 04-29-21
De: Carl Zimmer
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- De: Thomas Halliday
- Narrado por: Adetomiwa Edun
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life.
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Great book brilliantly read
- De Dipam en 04-06-22
De: Thomas Halliday
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Alien Earths
- The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
- De: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
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Engrossing! Very well conceived and written.
- De Texas Tim en 08-09-24
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Anaximander
- And the Birth of Science
- De: Carlo Rovelli
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked influence on modern science
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Wide ranging case for a Critical Figure in the Evolution of Science
- De Tom en 03-20-23
De: Carlo Rovelli
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Flights of Fancy
- Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
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The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?
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Thank God for Richard Dawkins!
- De aaron en 12-19-21
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Map of Knowledge
- A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
- De: Violet Moller
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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The foundations of modern knowledge - philosophy, math, astronomy, geography - were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean....
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Terrible narration.
- De nathan535 en 11-05-19
De: Violet Moller
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A History of the Human Brain
- From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
- De: Bret Stetka
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. The human brain, and its evolutionary journey, is unlike anything else in history. In A History of the Human Brain, Bret Stetka takes listeners through that far-reaching journey. He also tackles the question of where the brain will take us next, exploring the burgeoning concepts of epigenetics and new technologies like CRISPR.
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Fascinating survey of the evolution of the human brain
- De Cosmos en 03-30-21
De: Bret Stetka
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The Human Cosmos
- Civilization and the Stars
- De: Jo Marchant
- Narrado por: Jo Marchant
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence, but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our art, religious beliefs, social status, scientific advances, and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. It's a disconnect with a dire cost.
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This book has changed the way I think about my own mortality!
- De Jerry en 02-04-21
De: Jo Marchant
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
- How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
- De: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field and devised a radically new theory which overturned the strictly mechanical view of the world that had prevailed since Newton's time.
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Amazing narration of an incredibly well told story
- De Paul de Jong en 03-01-21
De: Nancy Forbes, y otros
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I Contain Multitudes
- The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
- De: Ed Yong
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on Earth.
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Undoes what you've learned from the headlines
- De Tristan en 10-14-16
De: Ed Yong
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Metazoa
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- Inez
- 12-17-23
VERY IMPRESSIVE
I listened to it as Smith's follow up book. I wanted more of the Marine Biology. So much of this went right over my head.
I need to start with some beginner's books. I did enjoy the parts I could stretch my shriveled old brain around.
i LOVE THE LEAFY SEADRAGON ON THE COVER. That's reason enough to buy the book.
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- Craig
- 01-06-22
well written, easy to listen to
peters voice is pleasant, i feel that anyone reading his works would be inadequate. i do appreciate the work being done by this man, and consideration should be given to animal with a gradient or levels of consciousness. however towards the end peter makes a couple assertions in that robots/ ai cannot be made conscious by replicating the patterns of human mind. it is asserted that there's something still missing from them which cannot be simulated, i feel this assertion is unfounded and had no supporting argument, which later on he acknowledges robots may one day become conscious(making that whole segmentkind of useless as it supported nothing else). besides that end piece, this is a great read for anyone interested in ethics and animal rights.
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- Jason
- 03-14-22
A primer on the evolution of consciousness
An enlightening story of Earth's life and how it came to be self aware.
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- Tom
- 11-29-21
Fascinating Journey through Philosophy and Biology
As in his book, Other Minds, a wonderful experience watching his mind work and his theories unfurl. More thoughts to follow, but my favorite takeaway is Our Mind is a Garden of things that arise and things that we furnish.
In this amazing book he traces the evolutionary journey of the rise of consciousness from sponges and soft corals through arthropods and cephalopods to Humans. Even more importantly he proposes a theory of the Human Experiential Profile that transcends the mechanical storm of cell to cell communication to encompass all of Felt Experience.
Listening to his narration really captures his fascination with his topic and the incredible detail he brings to his research. Five Stars *****
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- Anonymous User
- 11-09-21
Mind-Body
Metazoa speaks to one of the most fundamental questions in Philosophy - the relationship between the mind and body. Even stating the question that way objectifies the mind, which is a disservice to the point of the book. The person who listens to this book needs to be ready for a lot of detail, but that detail is fascinating if one is interested in the point of the book. Peter Godfrey-Smith does a masterful job of examining an old question in a new way.
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- SJR
- 07-02-22
Wonderful
How and when did mind come about through evolution? Pleasurable stimulating journey of philosophy and science.
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- Okan Tezucar
- 02-22-23
What a story
We’ll done with all the necessary details and true facts. Recommend for all book lovers
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- Lor
- 03-21-23
Beautifully written
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a gifted writer. He strings ordinary words into exquisitely beautiful sentences. His ideas are thoroughly and sensitively thought out. I want to read everything he’s written!
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- Wilg Flanders
- 02-28-21
outstanding
Best book I have read or listened to this year. Although I have been reading related information for decades, this book brought me new facts and a new perspective. I am still processing what that new perspective means for how I view the world and what my moral obligations are to other forms of life.
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- DD
- 02-05-22
Detailed review with important concepts
This book starts slow and moves slow in the beginning but the concepts are developed and the thesis of thought is important to consider and be exposed to.
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