Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of ConsciousnessThe follow up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the oceans surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life