Octopus Intelligence

[Lawrence Bryan]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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
>

Calls to my mind Ursula LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness. Perhaps it was  
influenced by Spacewoman.

Lawrence, who met Ms. LeGuin at a concert he sponsored in which her  
cellist daughter Elisabeth played a lovely cello suite of Bach, his  
5th, if my memory is correct.