[BradyLS]

Apart from the details, that’s pretty much what I figured.

[Buttons12]

They don’t live long, why do they need such smarts?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Transhumanism ping

[Chode]

they’re aliens...

[COBOL2Java]

[Paal Gulli]

An octopus has one central "brain" comprised of about 180 million neurons. Each arm (not tentacle, ... arm) has its own clump of about 40 million neurons functioning as a semi-autonomous "auxiliary brain," responsible for controlling that limb, interpreting its tactile sensations and sense of taste. Yes, octopus can taste what they pick up with their arms before putting it in their mouths. It's a de-centralized thinking, feeling and tasting system.

Octopus also display problem-solving ability and tool use, despite most of them only living a couple of years (the giant Pacific octopus is the longest-lived at four years).

Octopus in captivity can learn to recognize individual people and be trained to perform a certain task to get a reward, like ringing a bell (with the bell rope left hanging in the water) to get a food treat.

Plus they can change the color and texture of their skin at will.

And since the have no skeleton, they are one of the world's greatest escape artists. They can squeeze through any hole large enough to admit their eyeballs.

[plain talk]

""raw matter" that evolution a creator can sculpt"

[plain talk]

[BiglyCommentary]

Micheal Jordan must have evolved from co-joined twin octopuses.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Octopus brain and human brain share the same ‘jumping genes’”

Maybe this also explains why so many humans have no backbone.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Any teenage girl can attest to the teenage male brain having octopus genes.

[Veto!]

“Remarkably Bright Creatures” is a book I’m reading about a woman’s relationship with an octopus at the Seattle Aquarium. Her son was drowned in Puget Sound so she went to work as a cleaning woman there, just to be close to creatures of the sea. Very sweet story—I bought it after my son died last November. He loved the Aquarium when he was a little kid and was especially taken with octopi.

In the book, the Octopus keeps getting out of its tank and “suctioning” around the floor to get better fish than he’ s usually given. He has thoughts and a voice. Knows he won’t live long, but wants better food to live as long as he can.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Sometimes, when I’ve slipped on very fine mud, I feeeel like an octopus.

Does that make me octo-gendered?

[ifinnegan]

Initially called Junk DNA.

Thought to be a type of insulation against mutation.

[Red Badger]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=octopus%20space