Berlin Medical History Museum exhibit called: The Soul is an Octopus…

Berlin Medical History Museum exhibit: The Soul is an Octopus: Ancient Ideas of Life and the BodyWe’re late on this. Last year the Berlin Medical History Museum presented an exhibit called: The Soul is an Octopus: Ancient Ideas of Life and the Body.

The exhibit examined the “ancient conceptions of the soul and its interaction with the human body. In Graeco-Roman thought the soul was not only the basis of an individual person’s thinking, feeling or moral character. It was also a biological principle that gave life and structure to the body…

The exhibit asked “three important questions that were central to classical philosophers and physicians alike:

  • What is the ruling part of the soul?
  • Where does it reside?
  • How does it communicate with the body?

“In short what did it mean “to be ‘ensouled’ in ancient times.”

The Russian edition of The Soul of an OctopusComing in February to bookstores in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novogorod, Omsk, Kazan, and elsewhere, the Russian edition of The Soul of an Octopus.

“Bearing Arms: The Amazing World of the Octopus.” Sy enjoyed talking about octopuses on the NPR show 1A. She was on with Danna Staaf, author of Squid Empire, and Kelley Voss, a doctoral student at the University of California at Santa Cruz’s Mehta Lab in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. (1A is produced by WAMU 88.5 and is distributed by NPR.) Listen here.

Coming in May, a new book in the Scientists in the Field series: The Hyena Scientist.
Coming in May, a new book in the Scientists in the Field series: The Hyena Scientist.
Choosy cats choose Tamed & Untamed.  Sy thanks the reader who sent this photo to her.
Choosy cats choose Tamed & Untamed. Sy thanks the reader who sent this photo to her.