Octopus Intelligence

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Long ago I read a book which offered the notion that
> if we had evolved from 5-pointed starfish, we would not
> have a dualistic, manicheistic, either-or sense of 'morality'.
>
> Our morality would be pluralistic, --might have incorporated
> the excluded middle, I have thought as I get deeper and deeper into
> our beloved starfish writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Spacewoman

And see p. 69 here ...

http://www.amazon.com/Barlowes-Guide-Extraterrestrials-Science-Literature/dp/0894803247