Just how smart is an octopus?
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Just how smart is an octopus?
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Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#2Way to make me feel worse about eating them.
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#3Way to make me feel worse about eating them.
Well pigs are smarter than dogs, and many people eat them.
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
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#5Octopi? Pah. Cuttlefish are fucking brilliant.
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well pigs are smarter than dogs, and many people eat them.
I don't feel great about that either, but octopuses have shown repeatedly their problem solving abilities.
Perhaps that would be an interesting area of study. I think the lack of dexterous limbs probably inhibits the pig's ability to solve certain problems they would otherwise be mentally capable of tackling.
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#7Way to make me feel worse about eating them.
Last time I was in Hawaii, I had the opportunity to interact with an octopus in the wild. I will never eat one again.
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#8Way to make me feel worse about eating them.
Well, why not stop eating them?
Re: Just how smart is an octopus?
#9I love how completely alien they are compared to us. The sort of decentralized nature of their nervous system compared to our path of evolution. (I'm no marine/evolutionary biologist so I'm probably butchering the terminology...)
I loved reading the two pieces Sy Montgomery wrote that are in Orion Magazine.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/deep-intellect/
And the follow-up:
https://orionmagazine.org/2011/11/interviews-with-an-octopus...
(Edit: Si -> Sy)