Metazoa. The origin of the mind in the animal world. Godfri-Smith P.

It is worth immersing in the sea, how he encounters life forms that seem to be prohibitively alien: there are sea sponges, and soft corals, and worms-serpools, whose bizarre bodies, intricate structure and adhesive flowers resemble plants rather than plants or more likely plants. Even architectural forms than something animal. Nevertheless, all these creatures are our relatives. As equal representatives of the kingdom of animals - metazoa, they can tell a lot about the evolutionary origin of not only the human body, but also his consciousness.

Trying to get used to their experience and understand what it feels like to perceive the world and interact with it as other living creatures do, Peter Godfry Smith shows that the body characteristic of animals that appeared more than half a billion years ago , became the innovation that directed life along a fundamentally different path. Clevering the occurrence of sponges, corals, shrimp, octopuses and fish during the natural selection of sponges, and then moving to land, into the world of insects, birds and primates, Methazo overcomes the gap between reason and matter, bringing us closer to the resolution of one of the deepest philosophical problems - problems of consciousness.