A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about ...

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We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.