Title: “The Intelligent Octopus: Examining the Evidence for Sophisticated Cognition”

This is an higher division level philosophy course I’m taking at univercity about animal mind and cognition. We were able to pick our own topic for the paper, which I picked to be Octopus, since I thought it  would be easy to write about. As my main thesis I wanted to argue for the presence of highly sophisticated levels of intelligence among Octopuses based on the available evidence. As for the main source to be used, we need to use our course reading –  “The Animal Mind: An introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cogniton” by Kristin Andrews, 2015. File I attache bellow could be of assistance since we had to submit an outline, so it’s prefered that one is followed. For additional sources, there is a documentary about an Octopus on Netflix called “My Octupus Teacher from 2020, as well as a book by Godfrey-Smith called “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consiousness.” Paper needs to be 7-8 pages. I