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Van Gonzalez

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The chemistry of life is an aquatic chemistry. We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us. And many of the evolutionary moves made at these early stages—those giving birth to sensing, behavior, and coordination—would have depended on the sea’s free movement of chemicals.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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