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Thinking like an octopus | Harvard Gazette - 0 views

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  • “This suggests that animal minds lack the cohesiveness that humans have,” said Godfrey-Smith, a philosophy professor at Harvard. “It may have something to do with consciousness. Maybe it acts as a unifying tool.”
  • more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves,
  • “Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us,”
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  • identifying two strategies by the male octopus, one at close range and the second at a distance
  • The second strategy seems to be employed when the male is smaller than the female
  • the male extends a sperm packet at the end of an arm.
  • Females, it seems, sometimes eat the males.
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