octopus (intelligence) – Uncommon Descent

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At Mind Matters News: Science paper: Could octopuses be aliens from outer space?

There is no simple way of accounting for how smart the eight-armed invertebrate is. So, even if we dismiss an extraterrestrial origin, we still face a mystery.

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At Mind Matters News: Did the octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?

It’s an interesting fact that intelligence in animals is not nearly as firmly fixed in a hierarchy of evolution as we used to believe. Octopuses are extreme outliers and we are only just beginning to get to know them.

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At Mind Matters News: British government moves to protect octopuses from cruelty

Researchers are probing why some invertebrates are as smart as vertebrates. It seems that there is no straightforward evolutionary path to smartness.

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