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I found this book fascinating. Consciousness is well within my area of expertise as a psychologist, but the further one advances in her education, the more specialized her focus becomes. Metazoa took me all the way back to the history and systems of psychology. I haven’t considered qualia in any meaningful fashion since I was an undergrad! Godfrey-Smith builds an argument, and the process is necessarily a bit tedious, but I learned a lot about consciousness/cognition/minimal cognition in non-mammals, and I enjoyed hearing a philosopher’s take on the matter.

What I read in Metazoa strengthens my inclination to learn more about non-mammals, invertebrates, and even plants and fungi that first arose when I read Merlin Sheldrake’s An Entangled Life.

Metazoa might be a bit technical for people without a pre-existing interest in consciousness, but I think the world would be a much better place if everyone took the time to consider the experience of non-human animals, and I hope it will be widely read.