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The science and fiction of octopus intelligence

Fiction Science

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The Autonomy of Octopus Arms

The brain has hundreds of millions of neurons, but only a few hundred thousand in the arms. As technology becomes more intelligent, you have all these computations and calculations that are occurring through this very limited interface. We'll never truly wrap our head around the sheer amount of information complexity that's happening. But we have enough to be able to interact with them and use them adaptively in our day-to-day life.

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