Meet the footballing bees, optimistic pigs and alien-like octopuses that are shaking up how we think about minds
ow do you spot an optimistic pig? This isn’t the setup for a punchline; the question is genuine, and in the answer lies much that is revealing about our attitudes to other minds – to minds, that is, that are not human. If the notion of an optimistic pig sounds vaguely comical, it is because we scarcely know how to think about other minds except in relation to our own.
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