## Metadata - Author: [[Peter Godfrey-Smith]] - Full Title: Other Minds - Category: #books ## Highlights - An octopus has almost no hard parts at all—its eyes and beak are the largest—and as a result it can squeeze through a hole about the size of its eyeball and transform its body shape almost indefinitely. The evolution of cephalopods yielded, in the octopus, a body of pure possibility. ([Location 615](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01FQRPIIA&location=615)) - We have hearts, and so do octopuses. But an octopus has three hearts, not one. Their hearts pump blood that is blue-green, using copper as the oxygen-carrying molecule instead of the iron which makes our blood red. ([Location 959](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01FQRPIIA&location=959))